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Foil 15 Resources Needed by ICWU

From General NPAC Foils-B starting June97(PowerPoint) Beijing and Chang Sha China -- 28 Dec 97 to 5 Jan 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Central (albeit distributed) Compute Servers will be supplied by selected participating institutions e.g. for homework and examples on CGI, Databases etc.
Appropriate networking is essential.
  • Eventually one expects to need the bandwidth and quality of service needed to support multimedia delivery including audio-video conferencing (roughly a minimum of 100 kilobits per second)
  • Initially minimum requirement is a internet connection allowing synchronous chat rooms, interactive access to compute servers and batch updates of replicated web servers
  • Some of initial course delivery systems will use and need higher quality links

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