What is the Access Grid and how is it different from Telepresence or video conferencing?
The Access Grid is a collection of resources (known as nodes) that allow for collaboration between different universities on Internet2. What makes it different from traditional video conferencing is that it uses multiple displays with simultaneous camera feeds from each location, in addition to data. Telepresence or video conferencing usually shows one camera source from a location, with the possibility of showing two sources, one camera, one data signal. It is ideally designed to be a group to group collaboration tool and is located in one of the AMPS distance education classrooms.
