SUBJECT F2)

Announcing Nvatm version 1.0

Project Livewire, funded by the Network for Engineering and Research in Oregon (NERO), has produced Nvatm. Nvatm is a video-conferencing tool that allows the multicast of video traffic on a Fore Systems ATM network. It is a derivative of Nv by Ron Frederick of Xerox Parc and interoperates seamlessly with its ascendant.

New in this version is an optimized "raw" encoder. A Sparc 20 with SunVideo 1.0 was able to kick out a 20 Megabit per second uncompressed video stream. This will really chew up all that pesky extra bandwidth that ATM provides.

Nvatm has been compiled under the Solaris 2.3 operating system and release 2.3 of Fore Systems API to Fores equipment. SPANS signaling is required for ATM operation of Nvatm.

The binaries, sources, and documentation are available at ftp.nero.net in the directory pub/aschked/:

binaries: nvatm.Z

ftp://ftp.nero.net/pub/aschked/nvatm.Z

sources: nvatmsrc-1.0.Z

ftp://ftp.nero.net/pub/aschked/nvatmsrc-1.0.tar.Z

documentation:

nvatm.ps.Z - postscript version

nvatm.txt - text version

slides.ps.Z - slides used in oral presentation ftp://ftp.nero.net/pub/aschked/nvatm.ps.Z and ftp://ftp.nero.net/pub/aschked/nvatm.txt and ftp://ftp.nero.net/pub/aschked/slides.ps.Z