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The digital media production process enjoys the support of sophisticated hardware components that make capturing, encoding, and transmission of the content much easier. It also enjoys a large body of video professionals who can, with minimal training, take advantage of the extended features of the equipment. What remains the Achilles-heel of digital media is the delivery process. As the technology involved in the production process achieves higher levels of media richness, the system used to deliver the content must address the bottlenecks and obstacles located along the path to the audience. Since this is in essence a problem of logistics, solutions developed on top of Logistical Networking technologies are at hand. These technologies expand the capabilities of the shared network fabric by adding disk buffers used to optimize the delivery process. The result is a delivery system that does not compromise content integrity, and thus ensures the desired audience's experience. The panel will include an overview of these technologies and experiences from institutional and research network perspectives regarding emerging solutions.

Hunter Hagewood currently works in Brazil as a consultant to academic research projects and Business Director of Nevoa Networks. He received a BS in Computer Information Systems from Lipscomb University and his MS in Information Sciences from the University of Tennessee. The Internet2 Distributed Storage Infrastructure research project was his first academic participation and he went on to serve as Operations Coordinator for the Logistical Computing and Internetworking Laboratory (LoCI). His work in Brazil includes contributions to RNP's Digital Video Working Group and HP's OurGrid. Nuno Gonçalves received his degree from Lisbon University in 2000 and joined FCCN soon after, developing several relational database management systems and web applications. In 2002 he joined the Multimedia Work Group and has been developing streaming architectures, web applications and several videoconference activities. Currently he is working on "Estúdios," a videoconference project whose goal is to build six studios in six Portuguese universities to promote the use of videoconference and streaming technologies in the Portuguese Academic Network (RCTS). Terry Moore is currently Associate Director of the Logistical Computing and Internetworking Laboratory and the Center for Information Technology Research at the Computer Science Department at University of Tennessee. He received his BA in Philosophy from Purdue University and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His interests include network storage and especially Logistical Networking, an area of research which he has participated in and helped to lead since its inception in 1997.