1. Changyun Wang Under the Supervision of Dr.Turner The Access Grid is an Internet-based model for video conferencing developed by the Future Lab(FL)within the Mathematics and Computer Science (MCS) division of Argonne National Laboratories(ANL)
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8. Software components vic and rat were developed as part of the Internet Multicast backbone, or MBONE, which provided multicast services over the unicast Internet backbone (using "tunnels", or "bridges", between multicast nexus sites). The Access Grid model relies upon the ability to send and receive Internet Multicast traffic to and from all conference nodes. An individual vic stream will generate from 10Kbps to 4Mbps of network traffic. A large conference may generate 20Mbps.
