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MIAMI, FL (July 7, 2001)--Florida
International University and The New World Symphony are teaming
up to educate professional meeting
and event planners about the latest communications technologies.
The South Florida Chapter of Meeting
Professionals International (CMP) will see a real-time performance
by the New World Symphony’s
String Quartet, which will be performing in Miami Beach. The audience,
however, will be at the Kovens Conference Center, located at FIU’s
Biscayne Bay Campus in North Miami.
The transmission will showcase the
AMPATH GigaPoP, a facility operated by FIU that provides high-speed
access to Internet 2’s Abilene
network to regional universities and educational institutions,
as well as to Latin America and the Caribbean. Internet2 networks
provide users with connections over 100 times faster than today’s
commercial Internet, enabling DVD-quality sound and video.
The event will take place Tues.,
July 15th at 7:30 p.m. at the Kovens Conference Center, 3000
N.E. 151 Street in North Miami.
“This live demonstration shows
how organizations, like the New World Symphony and FIU, use Internet2
and audio-visual conferencing technologies
as an effective high-quality communications medium for professional,
educational and cultural events around the world,” said
Julio Ibarra, director, Research Networking and AMPATH at FIU.
“Professionals from the meetings
and hospitality industry are very lucky to be part of this experience
at the Kovens Conference Center,” said
Ken Samuels, CMP, and director of Business Development for Meetings,
Events & Conference Coordinators, Inc. “The experts
have been assembled to teach our industry leaders about the latest
developments
in video conferencing, web casting and real-time transmission
technologies. We are very excited to have formed this educational
partnership."
“The New World Symphony’s
pioneering experimentation with Internet2 has dramatically expanded
NWS’ educational reach
by developing a forum for the international exchange of musical
knowledge,” said Howard Herring, president and CEO of the
New World Symphony. “We are thrilled to partner with FIU
to demonstrate our successes, as FIU has been an invaluable supporter
of NWS’ technological advances.”
Media Contact:
Jennifer Fucci
305-919-5779
fuccij@fiu.edu
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