Preliminary STAR TAP Tele-Immersion Experiments between Chicago and Singapore

Tele-Immersion is the merging of audio and video conferencing with collaborative virtual reality, datamining and significant computation systems. As TeleImmersion often involves distantly located participants all interacting with each other in real-time, it relies heavily on the quality of the underlying networks used to distribute information between participants. This paper presents our preliminary findings of testing a number of tele-immersive applications over the STAR TAP link between Chicago and Singapore. The goal is to be able to prescribe and deploy a suite of Tele-Immersion networking experiments around the world for testing and comparing the quality of their links so that predictions can be made of the suitability of the link for supporting different classes of Tele-Immersion applications.