OFERTIE will have a booth at ICT 2013 in Vilnius between 6-8 November 2013. We will have two interactive demonstrations showing the need for Software Defined Networking. Come and take part in the demonstration at booth 5G8!
Virtual production is one sample use case: The current approach of the movie and broadcasting industry using mainly non-interactive off-line technologies restricts creativity and hurts productivity. Distributed virtual worlds shared by multiple users at different locations allows creating movies and television programmes interactively in a virtual simulated world in a fraction of time, and using less resources than for traditional production techniques, offering the director wider scope for creativity, experimentation, testing and tweaking. SLA managed SDN using OpenFlow is the foundation for providing the balance between QoS expectations and provider needs to make this approach practical, economical and reliable, resulting in higher quality movies and reduced production risks.
At ICT2013 Vilnius we are using the Kinect as a motion sensing input device, the movements of visitors will be transferred onto virtual actors in a virtual movie world – a virtual computer generated actor in the virtual world follows all the movements of the visitor. The visitor can act out a short movie scene whilst others (stand personnel or other stand visitors) control a virtual camera. The result is recorded and can be edited to produce a movie clip at the end of the demonstration. The importance of high quality and reliable internet connections and the impact of reduced quality on the movie production will be described. The benefits to be gained from using software defined networking (SDN) based on OpenFlow will then be discussed. Interested visitors can then discuss further the range of OpenFlow experiments planned by the project.
Gaming is another typical use case: In the game industry the trend of playing multi-player games online is continuing, and the demand of high-quality gaming experience goes beyond the limits of today’s best-effort internet routing approach. SDN based on OpenFlow allows game developers and publishers to lift the quality of internet-based games to new levels.
A second demonstration at the ICT2013 based on an interactive football on-line game will also be shown, which will allow us to demonstrate the effect of uncontrolled network latency on the playing experience, and support explanation of the beneficial use of Software Defined Networking using OpenFlow
