Assembly Television in high bandwidth Multicast over FUNET


Assembly 2000 computer festival (http://www.assembly2k.net/) 
is the biggest and most well-known event of multimedia 
magicians and young computer enthusiast in the world. 
Since 1992 Assembly has gathered the youth to compete in
multimedia and computer demos and to meet others like-minded people
and of course to have fun. Over 3500 visitors from 20
different countries are expected to attend the long weekend 
happening starting from Thursday, August the 3rd to Sunday, 
August the 6th.

Assembly competitions and atmosphere have been broadcasted to the
Internet over last two years. This year Assembly is breaking a world
record on its own field: the whole event will be broadcasted live to
the Internet and to cable TV in the metropolitan area in Finland. The
whole weekend is filled with multimedia, demos, graphics, music,
competitions, party reports, talkshows and interviews, 80
hours live.

In addition to Sonera Live's Realvideo and Windowsmedia streams,
AsmTV will be broadcasted in high bandwith Multicast (MPEG-1 and
H.261) as a part of the FUNET-TV project (http://tv.funet.fi) over 
the Finnish University Network, FUNET. The AsmTV's multicast at 
the partyplace and in FUNET is based on Cisco System's IP/TV-technology. 

If your Internet connection supports Multicast from FUNET you will be
entitled to watch the show in high quality video on your computer.
Welcome to see the whole Assembly 2000 event at AsmTV, www.asmtv.net.

Contacts:

AsmTV:      Ville Vaten (vvaten@mail.niksula.cs.hut.fi)
CSC/FUNET:  Leif Laaksonen (Leif.Laaksonen@csc.fi)
            Harri Salminen (Harri.Salminen@csc.fi)