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Cisco has a donated teleprecense system at UCLA. UC Berkeley also received a telepresence donation from Cisco but implementation has not occurred. There are a few reservations about Cisco's structure in the telepresense area. However, if member campuses are requesting Cisco certification then perhaps the Performance Group should look into it. (There was some doubt in the group that Cisco really has any interest in certifying R&E networks in general - they seem to prefer referring users to dedicated T3/DS3 lines from AT&T in the California region over leveraging CENIC for example.)
Jeff noted that the performance Cisco likely needs for their certification should not be difficult to achieve. However, the certification would need to be across the Internet2 network and also across other regional and university networks to where the telepresence sites are. Therefore it would involve deploying more performance nodes out to locations. (And, it is not clear yet specifically what metrics Cisco will require.)
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