VHB Workshops

27, July 2010  |  Published : Archives  | 

To set professionals, and people at large, straight about the technical, social and economic evolutions due to the development of very high bandwidth networks (VHB,THD, très haut débit, in French), the VHB experience platform, managed by competitiveness cluster Cap Digital, has organized series of fifteen meetings and workshops on the project length with his partners la Cité des sciences et de l’industrie, Centre Pompidou and Institut de Recherche en Innovation (IRI).

Optical Fiber’s very high bandwidth networks are shattering online services’ technical and economic models. With their symmetric high speed characteristics and reduced latency delay, these VHB networks enables today the development of new applications, unrealizable on ADSL networks, in the meanwhile they are provoking new practices, and opening new markets to services and digital contents sector’s firms.

Very high bandwidth access to internet by Fiber Optic should be counting more than five millions subscribers in France for 2012, a growth that would affect ADSL from 2010 (LeMonde.fr). These FTTx telecom technologies (direct linking of subscribers by Optical Fiber) do have an important economic issue linked to new digital services and multimedia contents’ development supported by the very high bandwidth of telecom networks, simultaneity of using and very short answering times what is therefore boosting very interactive applications.

Issues are on the development, in the sector of general public services (B2C), of 2D or 3D mapping services, type virtual globe, of 3D persistent environments, of online multiplayer games (MMOG), of video on demand (VOD) high definition, distance learning and Digital working environments, of distance medicine (home medical care); and in the professional services sector (B2C), of visio-conference HD, telepresence and collaborative environments, facility management of computing resources, of outsourcing and sharing of contents or applications (ASP), distance learning, distance medicine and especially around the medical image, etc.

Friday, June 19, 2009: « Optical networks: a scientist and technical glimpse. » By professor Kan Chen, Director of Université Paris 13’s L2TI Laboratory.

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Tuesday, April 6, 2010: « VHB and IPv6, a winning combination for a sustainable Internet »
From 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m., in Piazza room (Centre Pompidou)

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Context and goals
The progressive arrival of IPv6 is making networks and services developments (above all, new ones) much more easier and suitable to present and future needs. It’s particularly the case talking about comparing addressing capacity IPv4 vs IPv6, IPv6 addressing space being much bigger than IPv4 one: 232 vs 2128 !

Simultaneously, the growing easiness of the IPv6 spreading is facing an increasing difficulty (scaring in some contexts) to develop IPv4 networks and services. The IPv4 addresses shortage and their depletion planned for 2012 is one of many exacerbating factors the most quoted nowadays, but there are many others, like the translation boxes proliferation (NAT), making equipments’ communication from end to end very harsh, or even impossible;

Concerning the set-up of the VHB platform different participants are contributing to the project. They are standing for almost all internet actors : from the final user (VHB subscriber) to FAI/operator ( Internet access and data transport) passing by the equipment maker, the application developer (project bearers proposing network applications to be tested by beta-testers) and the hosting facilities’ operator (test-bed and datacenter).

The goal of this workshop is mainly to:

*give information to present internet actors about the IPv6 contributions and its adoption/development’s status report;
*get the VHB professionals close to the importance of integrating IPv6 in all development levels :equipments, operating systems, routing and hosting facility, network applications (practices) to try out today, but which would be produced tomorrow.

Format and Content
This Half-day workshop will include diverse speakers expressions, but having all a very interested experience. Participants will be able to interact with the speakers, especially on these aspects:

*Why IPv6 ? What’s new with it ?
*What is the goal of the diverse actors in IPv6’s development? How far did we get?
* What kind of approach and concrete actions are to be advised taking about IPv6 integration, to fully benefit of the available VHB facility’s capacity?
* How the « VHB +IPv6 » combination could be part of a « sustainable internet »?

Intervening people
Patrick Cocquet*, Cap Digital (opening speech)
Mohsen Souissi, AFNIC (moderator)

Sample group :
– Rémi Després, RD-IPtech
– Thierry Ernst, INRIA
– Christian Jacquenet, France Telecom
– Jean-Michel Planche*, Witbe
– Karine Perset, OCDE
– Luc Imbert, Cisco

* to be confirmed

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Friday, march 26, 2010: « Cinema and digital networks »
From 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., in Piazza room ( Centre Pompidou)
Workshop organized with FUI CineCast project partners’ participation

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The Cultural world main actors, public as well as private ones, are increasingly interested to deep transformation introduced by the turn of a cultural economy based on consuming and massive audience to a cultural economy shattered by very high-bandwidth digital networks development (VHB, THD, très haut débit, in French) mainly targeted on contributions and trades. Economy and social practices of Cinema, which were built on an asymmetrical and centralized model similar to televisual and radio broadcasting, are evolving towards more and more flexible, dispatched and symmetrical patterns where amateurs’ practices are getting more and more complicated and diversified before or after the diffusion. At this critical converging point, named by some as Web 3.0, great industrials actors are investing and developing new activities to establish their industrial strategies in the Cinema sector, focalizing especially on the metadata quality and the flexibility of the movie broadcasting knowing the reception theaters’ equipment and the digital screening (fiber-to-the-theater). Many companies are also investing a market known as social engineering (that is to say technology and services for collaborative and social networks), they are conceiving new economic models based on logical bottom-up and top-down combinations allowed by VHB symmetrical networks.

The goal of this workshop, managed by IRI (Institut de recherche et d’innovation) and implemented in the VHB regional platform project frame integrated by Cap Digital, is to question the VHB technologies impact on the economic models and cinematic industry’s progress, as well as cultural and social linked practices. A special interest will be carried on the expansion of contributory practices of empowerment and contents broadcasting, along with the emergence of high added value new services, at the contents providers’ level but also connected social media. The workshop will be thereby organized around the below topics, in the prospect of the given opportunities of very high speed networks:

3 :00-3 :20 p.m. : Introduction to workshop

  • Vincent Puig, assistant director of IRI (Institut de Recherche et d’Innovation)

3 :20-4 :00 p.m. : digital technology and broadcasting

  • Matthieu Sintas, SmartJog digital Cinema manager

4 :00-4 :40 p.m. : New economic models

  • Frédéric Sitterlé, My Skreen promoter
  • Thomas Jullienne,Theater marketing manager of AlloCiné

4 :40-5 :20 p.m. : social and contributoring practices

  • David Honnorat, co-promoter, Director of Vodkaster’s products and communities
  • Bruno Daniault, IP…Ciné ‘s director

5 :20-6 :00 p.m. : Debate on the very high bandwidth issues

Registration and information : by mail to the following adress : contact@iri.centrepompidou.fr

Websites linked to VHB and Cinecast projects: http://portailthd.fr, http://thdculture.fr, http://cinecast.fr

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Workshop synthesis:

Vincent Puig (IRI) has started bring back the context and the goals of this workshop organized around the VHB regional platform project ran by Cap Digital. He has detailed the financers and partners list, the project frame, as well as the experimental possibilities of new services on VHB (very high bandwidth) networks possible thanks the mentioned platform. The workshop is organized and initiated by IRI but was as well the occasion of bringing the stakeholders and partners of another project supported by CapDigital which is CineCast (CineCast is dealing about the studying of new practices in Digital Cinema).This 3 years long project is concerning the collaborative tools conception as « Lignes de Temps » coupled to social networks to explore possibilities for renewing a « film-club » spirit with the present digital tools. Vincent Puig presented then with more details all the VHB platform partners of the project. Then again he has taken back the context induced by current events and in particular the guideline one and the bill on fair financing of digital and VHB equipment of theaters one ( in answer to a first project negative opinion submitted by CNC to the Autorité à la concurrence (Cf. the CNC press communiqué dated from February 17,2010) announcing this financing frame of all the theatres, linking economic and technical issues : Cinema is indeed shattered by collaborative technologies at the access facilities level but also in terms of economic models and new practices (which are reconsidering Cinema in its own temporality (for example the passing of the push mode with the “à la carte” film-club and the confluence between fiber-to-the-theater and fiber-to-the-home, neglecting the quality difference).Vincent Puig concluded his presentation with a few words about the CineCast project, a project that will allow the new tools development in the social practices context based on digital Cinema and in relationship with the social networks platforms in partnership with most of the great movie libraries.

Speech is then given to Jeremie Roudaire, (Globecast company) to introduce the digital technologies topic and their broadcasting. Globecast is a France Telecom subsidiary company specialized in content transportation and TV channels everywhere in, the world, it is associated to the CineCast project via Nettia (one of its subsidiaries specialized in contents management via asset management tools) which is taking care of the CineCast project coordination. The movies delivery in theaters is also one of the GlobeCast specialities. The GlobeCast job is especially the contents transportation and is pushing forward, particularly in dematerialized movies delivery by satellite and optical fiber. Jérémie Roudaire then reminded the present works aiming to host the future CineCast platform, in relationship with the Nettia’s software developments.

Vincent Puig then gave speech to Frédéric Sitterlé, (MySkreen company) to introduce the new economic models topic. Frédéric Sitterlé began his intervention specifying that the latest digital revolutions and the transformations they induced in cinematic industry are only the last stage of the serial’s mutations that have touched in the past the music and press industries. This serial has been indeed felt in this background like a real trauma for the professionals, I-tunes, like this, would have weighted in the destruction of the Music industry economic model. Frédéric Sitterlé use to be, at the Figaro, in charge of new medias revival of the group internet activities (2005) of which now, half of the result goes to the activities on internet. In the audiovisual domain, the Figaro group has decided the MySkeen creation to come along with audiovisual actors in their digital transformation. MyScreen is financed by the Dassault and Figaro group, in order to guarantee a large audiovisual works broadcasting, making it accessible, and also to fight against hacking. In HADOPI, there is DO, that is to say works broadcasting (Diffusion des Oeuvres): an efficient way to fight against hacking is indeed to develop a legal offer, easily accessible and at fair price. MySkreen is a new platform to come with diffusers in their digital shift, and leave them free to settle their prices and the relation with their customers, to offer the internet users an alternative to pirate offer and substitute the foreign offer which is destroying the economic model. The MySkreen propositions are structured around 3 axes: 1/ bringing up the contents more accessible, i.e. where the legal offers are (1 million of contents referenced on this platform); 2/ make the access easier ( for example via built-in players (OuLOO technology); 3/ to offer this access at the best price to defend the economic model. On the platform, a price comparator. Demo and description of the website functions for Cinema and TV.

Session of interrogations to Frédéric Sitterlé

Matthieu Sintas (SMARTJOG company) has carried on the digital technologies and broadcasting topic. Matthieu Sintas is the digital Cinema manager of SMARTJOG. SMARTJOG is an around fifty persons’ French company, at 100% subsidiary of TDF group, based in Paris with a permanent office in Los Angeles. It is developing technologies which are aiming to offer services to the several audiovisual stakeholders: distributors, advertising sales house, channels, post-prod companies, as well as various movie downloading platforms, etc… These technologies are enabling file transfer from server to server, in a private network between companies (800 points in the world). You can get access from online catalogs towards movie distributors. Considering this intent, SMARTJOG has created and is managing a 24/7 opened web platform, very high protected (some contents being very delicate). On these platforms, users can get access to their spaces where they can connect with their partner’s ones, who are, or not, part of the SMARTJOG network, to handle their files or to follow their transfers process. About technology SMARTJOG is using on one hand open-source tools, and developing in-house on the other hand the core of technology that is to say the transfer protocol as well as other necessary applications for the platform management : web pages, physical servers management, and all the internal necessary tools. The company is employing 50% of fifth year of higher education computer engineers (with high technical potential). SMARTJOG, who was before in other distributors’ services business (dubbing, post-prod, marketing, etc…) has found normal to extend its digital contents transfer offer as soon as the theatres has begun to be fitted out with digital technologies. Since 3 years, 160 Cinema businesses (circa 500 to 600 screens) are enjoying the SMARTJOG services. In the French background SMARTJOG is counting 2200 to 2300 customers which is globally 5500 screens of which about thousands are digitally shifted (it’s more about multiplexes than corner theaters). The transfer process is the following: the distributor is choosing the movie, selecting the theaters, sending. When the film has come to the operator, everybody receive a mail. The operator dump the movie from the reception server (disposable thanks to SMARTJOG) to his projection server. In terms of technical means of broadcasting, the platform is entirely hybrid, and has a permanent access to a satellite platform at Intelsat (covering the whole world but for now concerning Europe).Technology is offering multicast and unicast possibilities for each movie, it can go to 4 movies per week meaning 40 to 50 theaters per week: SMARTJOG is distributing movies,trailers, forward sessions to Screenvision, Mediavision, etc. The satellite is the simplest mean to get HD and sprinkle around a very huge area. The access cost to platform is quite expensive, but the satellite is fitted for concomitant broadcasting towards a great number of websites. It is however inappropriate for a flexible and personal broadcasting, because it’s a non-symetrical link who is not allowing new uses of the Theater. Only the optical fiber could enable these new practices.

Session of interrogations to Matthieu Sintas

Thomas Julienne (Allociné) pursued the argument about audience and economic models. Attached to marketing, Thomas Julienne is on charge of relationships woth operators, and is taking care of timetables’ communication on Allociné website in paricular. Taking about audience Allociné is representing 80 000 visitors per day (including trailers and Allociné transmissions, ( 6 currently produced including « DirectToDVD » on the DVD outputs) two people ( on the hundred working at Allociné) are working in the AllocinéSalles service. 1626 theaters are appearing on the Allociné website, of which 1356 are partners. A theater partner is a theater which make the choice to raise up its timetable directly to extranautes via extranet or via XML flow, or again via cash-box system. At the ticket sale level, 950 tickets has been sold via Allociné in 2009, via 3 main systems: booking list by fax, Europalas or UGC. Thomas Julienne has detailed the example of 3 movies which are marketing events: Avatar, This is it, and Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis. The AlloCiné Salles core activity is to convince the operatos to make the effort of raising up their timetable and then Allociné is giving a free extranet at their disposal. Thomas Julienne shortly described the services and provided advantages by this extranet. The operator can dig about, in the Allociné media database, the contents (in MPEG2 720p) linked to a given research (teaser, trailer…). Allociné is planning to broadcast its contents between sessions, a very boring moment in France, (it could be cinematic news), with, very soon, an access to each transmission. At last a test phase with a distributor (Walt Disney with Alice and Prince of Persia), it’s proposing to spread digital movie trailers, without passing by the distributor each time.

Session of interrogations to Thomas Julienne

Vincent Puig then gave speech to David Honorat (Vodkaster) to pursue this third part on economic models. Vodkaster.com was runed in october,2009. This website is born from a report, since 2005 (emergence of YouTube, Dailymotion…) internet has become an audiovisual medium in itself, but the part of Cinema in this new space was still insufficient and the facility of it insuitable for the web. The Vodkaster company’s approach was thus trying to bring back web 2.0 and Cinema together, with the idea to take the movie scene, a so far not often used format, as a basic unit. Vodkaster is so on a collaborative video platform based on the movie scene. The company is dealing with the right holders to get sampling rights of the movie, indexing it and publishing it. 13000 movie scenes are currently indexed collaboratively. It’s basically about carrying out new promoting modalities of these extracts by means of viral and/or entertaining applications fitting for the attitude and practices of the internet users. For the right holders, Vodkaster is also a promoting platform they can rely on to dispatch their contents on blogs and social networks, contents that are promoting their catalogs. Taking about economic model and system financing, the contents and metadata can be sold outside as white label or sponsored on the website in order to develop innovative applications (especially thanks to the Quizz Vodkaster search engine).

Session of interrogations to David Honorat

Bruno Daniault (IP Ciné) finally conclued this workshop and the social and contributive practices’ topic. The Equinoe platform is a new way to explore the collaborative Cinema which enables you to get the session on demand. The public session is programmed by the user and can be shared. Each session access is payed, this is paying the rights channel. The session could be offered by an advertiser (who will then pay himself in advertising solicitations). Originally, there was a strong will to make at disposal all the heritage, hardly accessible in traditional networks. It’s the necessary exploitation costs’ profit-making which would justify digitisation. The broadcasting by digital networks is reducing the logistic and facility’ costs. IP Ciné is, this way, putting itself as operator only, with a teaching role beside distributors and producers.

Vincent Puig’s conclusion and announcement of following workshops

Thursday,may 27,2010: « 3D technologies and VHB networks ; new online services opportunities for people at large and mutualised ressources for professionals »                                                                   From 2:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., in Piazza room (Centre Pompidou)

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This workshop, on the 3D technologies and VHB networks topic, which is bring together several industrial actors from very different backgrounds, will be a chance to argue on the technical prospects, the new 3D services and the possible evolution of digital practices for people at large, as well as the new services designed for professionals.

Moderation of the workshop : Stéphane Singier, project manager for Cap Digital Paris Region’s strategic waking and territorial competitiveness

2:30 p.m.: Introduction of workshop, short presentation of the VHB platform crossed with the 3D topic
Olivier Jonas – Tecdev – operational coordination of the VHB platform

First part : 3D+VHB and B2C services

2:45 p.m.: Urban 3D models and geolocalized services : an « historical » vision from a pictures’ synthesis specialist, Archividéo
François Gruson – Archividéo’s director

3 :00 p.m.: New 3D cross-media services : the Zavatars project, or how give life again to TV audience by virtual reality.
François-Xavier Cardon – 3D2+’s general manager

3 :15 p.m.: 3D real-time mapping for teaching applications : the TI3D serious game( Terres Interactives 3D) tested by Navidis.
Philippe Perennez – r&d Navidis Director

3:30 p.m. : the 3D return issues carried off for video games. European Kusanagi project’s presentation.
Cyril Mory – Eureva consultant, Kusanagi’s project leader

3:45 p.m. : Urban 3D database, virtual reality and extended reality. The 3D services demonstrators of the Terra Numerica’s project.
Maurice Benayoun – Cofondateur du laboratoire CITU lab co-promoter (Paris 1 / Paris 8 universities)

4 :00 p.m. : Discussion between participants.
Round-table moderated by Stéphane Singier – Cap Digital cluster’s project manager.
The new uses and 3D services provoked by VHB networks…

Second part : 3D+VHB and B2B services

4 :30 p.m. : 3D mapping services issues, SaaS type.
Nicolas Paparoditis – MATIS lab director (from IGN)

4 :45 p.m. : 3D Geographic information systems (GIS, SIG in french) and data storage outsourcing.
Nicolas Klein – SIG consultant on Terra Magna project, Star-Apic

5 :00 p.m.: The « very very high bandwidth » for a cluster 3D contents’ production and digital audivisuals in France and abroad : the Sebastian 2 project
Jean-Hugues Lauret – partnerships Director, EISTI

5:15 p.m. : The great basics of 3D urban data, the Terra Numerica et Terra Dynamica’s projects. The issues of 3D deported.
Pascal Peyronnet – Terra Numerica and Terra Dynamica’s project manager, Thales Services (provided)

5:30 p.m.: Discussion between participants.
Round-table moderated by Stéphane Singier – Cap Digital cluster’s project manager.
Technical, operational and ecnomic issues of the 3D Software as a Service mapping applications, of the 3D return and cloud computing, of the very high bandwidth and the resources mutualization…

Information and registration: contact@iri.centrepompidou.fr

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