Nigel Barling

Ubiquitous Communications - CSIRO Mobility and Unified TelePresence Programs

In this paper, Nigel Barling will outline the work that CSIRO Information and Technology (IM&T) is carrying out to provide Ubiquitous Communications across various devices via the CSIRO Mobility and Unified TelePresence Programs.
The CSIRO IM&T TelePresence Program is deploying to CSIRO Staff ubiquitous high definition video from desktop clients and High Definition Collaboration Rooms to both other CSIRO staff members, mobile devices and external collaborators. Emphasis is being placed on making it far easier for external collaborators to be able to collaborate with CSIRO staff both by leverage the AARNET Unified Communications Exchange and allowing standards based SIP clients to connect with CSIRO endpoints for adhoc conferences. As part of the deployment, a Single National Cisco Unified Communications cluster is being deployed to allow advanced services such as Presence and messaging applications across all devices across CSIROs 55 sites.
The CSIRO IM&T Mobility Program is to “Support the post-PC era by providing seamless access to CSIRO applications and data irrespective of the user device and location“ and delivers to CSIRO the service catalogue items for staff to utilise iPAD, iPhone and Android devices with Secure Remote desktop access; Mobile Science applications for data collection and an internal application delivery mechanisms.
CSIRO Scientists are increasingly requesting anytime/anyplace access to voice, video and data and the mobility and TelePresence programs are two major projects delivering on these requirements for unified communications in a distributed environment.

CSIRO
CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, is Australia's national science agency. CSIRO research delivers solutions for agribusiness, energy and transport, environment and natural resources, health, information technology, telecommunications, manufacturing and mineral resources. CSIRO works at the forefront of emerging sectors, such as information and communication technologies, gene technology and nanotechnology. Working from sites across the nation and around the globe, our staff are focused on providing new ways to improve quality of life and the economic and social performance of our industries.

Nigel Barling's Biography
Nigel Barling is acting Technology Manager – Networks and Unified Communications, within the Information Management and Technology group at CSIRO. Nigel joined CSIRO’s Network Team in November 2001 which is now responsible as a converged team for CSIRO’s Network, Security and Authentication, Messaging and Unified Communication infrastructure. During this time the team has deployed Cisco Unified Meetingplace for Web Collaboration, over 150 Video Conference rooms across Australia and more recently initiated a Video Conference Room and core infrastructure refresh to deploy High Definition Video Conference ubiquitously from Desktop to room based systems both internal and external to CSIRO; together with High Definition Multipoint Conference Units, Content Servers and Session Border Controllers.