Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC) is using the Envivio 4Forum™ webcasting solution to transmit classes from its New York City campus to medical students at its Qatar (WCMC-Q) campus in the Middle East. Envivio 4Forum records daily interactive classes at the WCMC state-of-the-art facility in New York, combines audio, video, and graphics into single 1600 x 1200 resolution MPEG-4 files, and transmits the files over IP to the Middle East campus.
"Envivio has elegantly succeeded in creating a turnkey solution that captures in real time, both the video of faculty student interaction, as well as the high-resolution medical imaging or computer graphics essential to the medical school curriculum," said Dr. Steve Erde, Senior Director, Academic Computing at WCMC. "The fact that a single encoding system can both stream in real time, and capture into a single interactive MPEG-4 file for on-demand viewing at a later time, was essential for our students in the Middle East (there is an eight hour time difference between New York City and Qatar). In addition to medical school lectures, 4Forum is ideal for capturing medical grand rounds and research seminars, which will empower a new era in continuing education for established physicians."
The 4Forum solution uses the MPEG-4 Systems specification to deliver live and non real-time interactive and perfectly synchronized webcasts with sub-second latency and the ability to scale delivery to thousands of viewers. It is controlled through a web-based interface to easily customize presentations, start and stop the webcasts, create post edits, and manage presentations for later on-demand delivery from an
Envivio 4Sight™ MPEG-4 video streaming server.
"We needed an architecture that was flexible, standards based, and supported the wide range of desktop and server platforms that we use at Cornell. With 4Forum, Envivio has hit the sweet spot for all these requirements!" Erde added.
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