I'm sure I'm not the only person who this has happened to, during a mid-size conference with our campus and attendants from Costa Rica, Argentina and the Valley, the campus Network staff pulled the plug on our Venue Server stating it was using too much bandwidth. The problem was the connection to the Valley (South Texas). It was overloading and it literally killed the connections to several campuses and Fire and Police (they all use Cisco VoIP phones).
I can understand them pulling the connection when a part of your state is having connection issues. So, what can I do about it? Our Access Grid use is only going to grow and I feel a fight is brewing with campus Networking. What solutions can I bring to them so this doesn't happen again? Oh, and the thought of them increasing the allotted bandwidth to the Valley is out of the question, they always says they can't afford it. Personally, I was thinking of two things that could help, switch to H.263+ video (I know its in the Linux version of VIC, what about Mac and Windows?) and GSM mode for audio. Thanks for any ideas you all provide! -- Jeremy Mann [email protected] University of Texas Health Science Center Bioinformatics Core Facility http://www.bioinformatics.uthscsa.edu Phone: (210) 567-2672
