Live Coast-to-Coast Undersea Video
Visitors at Connecticut's Mystic Aquarium immerse themselves in an underwater 
world 3,000 miles away by remotely controlling underwater cameras in California. 
Using interactive consoles at the Mystic Aquarium's Immersion Institute, visitors 
control three video cameras on an underwater submersible in the Monterey Bay 
National Marine Sanctuary, the largest U.S. marine sanctuary. Using VBrick 
Systems MPEG-2 encoder/decoders, the live video is encoded into DVD-quality MPEG-2 
and sent at an average rate of 6 Megabits per second (Mbps) to the University of 
California, Santa Cruz, where it travels across Internet2 high-performance networks 
to the University of Connecticut and on to the Mystic Aquarium. By downloading 
VBrick's free StreamPlayer software, you can also view live MPEG-2 video from 
Monterey Bay on your desktop. After installing StreamPlayer, click on one of the 
Monterey Bay selections in the Program Guide (you must use Internet Explorer). 
Live underwater video from the MonterLive Coast-to-Coast Undersea Video