Jenn’s Transpatial Office
I was looking for a photo to update my Twitvatar and found this photo in my photos directory. To the left is a Mackie mixer, audio and video processing and recording decks, the monitors on the desk are (from left to right) a Xing MPEG-1 StreamServer, SGI Indy (w/Indycam) and Windows 95 (w/Quikcam).
I formed Transpatial Media Corporation with Warp 10 Technologies to develop a distributed streaming management system that unified acquisition and distribution of media created for Multicast (MBone), the various “V”s (Vstream, VXtreme, Vivoactive, Vosaic, VDO), Progressive/Real Networks, CU-See Me and Microsoft NetShow platforms into a common interface.
Stream Studio
Due to the state of A/V, computing and Internet technology, we were forced to use a ton of equipment including CSU/DSUs, Routers, a Rackmount PC for each format and a rackmount UNIX server to interface to the Transpatial management system. The photo to the right was my first modular design for a Transportable Streaming Studio for distributing events via IP networks.
I was hoping to eventually connect the system to a fly-away satellite uplink kit, but the satellite operators weren’t going to understand IP until much later in the future.