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Perfect fusion of academics, technology

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The exercise enabled students to clear doubts before attending EAMCET counselling

HYDERABAD: It was a perfect fusion of academic brilliance, technological advances and inquisitiveness of students. The live audio-video streaming facility provided by The Hindu and Sri Chaitanya Educational Institutions helped link Hyderabad with Kakinada, Warangal and Kurnool towns on Friday. The exercise enabled renowned academicians to clear their doubts on career, before they attended the EAMCET counselling - 2007.The seamless interaction among the four centres was made possible with the help of SEC Communications, which provided the solution for the live streaming, while BSNL provided the reliable bandwidth facility.

In the real-time audio-video streaming, students in Warangal, Kakinada and Kurnool posed questions and got answers from the academicians in Hyderabad. While the experts answered questions, participants in three centres watched and listened. Each of the three centres were allotted time on rotation basis and the four-hour interaction had certainly empowered the students and their parents who registered themselves to participate in the programme.

As the students listened with rapt attention to the academicians, a flurry of activity was taking place behind the scenes. Powerful CODEC equipment were silently converting and compressing the video inputs from CCD cameras and the audio inputs from sensitive microphones at all the four centres into digital packets and transmitting them over ISDN BRA (Basic Rate Access) and PRI (Primary Rate Interface) lines to Hyderabad.

The Multi Point Controlling Unit (MCU) which received the packets, was decompressing them and feeding the video and audio in real time enabling the participants to watch the question answer session live. The software and the ISDN lines were so reliable that the 240-minute interaction continued seamlessly.

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