Telecommunications Services: Video Services and Video Conferencing

Video Services

The demand for video services continues to increase as the availability, cost, quality, and flexibility of these services continues to improve. Georgetown University has provided residential cable television and video conferencing for several years and is now providing additional services.

For more information on these services, please contact Barry Catelinet from UIS at 202-687-5471 or send email to catelinb@georgetown.edu.

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Cable Television

Georgetown University has provided residential student cable television since 1988. These services have also been extended to departmental areas, the Marriott guest rooms, and lounge areas. 

Resident students should refer to the Hoyanet Services web page for more info about signing up and pricing for cable TV services. 

Georgetown University's "Hoyanet Information" provides broadcasts and alerts over channel 3. Click here for the complete Hoyanet Services Cable TV Channel lineup.

For more information on these services, please contact Barry Catelinet from UIS at 202-687-5471 or send email to catelinb@georgetown.edu.

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Video Conferencing

Whether your conference needs are local, regional, or international, video conferencing lets you hold high quality, interactive meetings without the expense or inconvenience of travel. UIS provides video conferencing at several designated locations on campus and offers extremely competitive rates for these services.

There are two options for setting up your video conference.

Internet Protocol connections

In this case, the video conference is routed over the University?s campus high-speed data network to the Internet (or the private Internet 2 research network). This option is less expensive than the other option, but it requires all parties to connect to the Internet with high bandwidth connections.

ISDN-BRI connections

The second video conference option creates a connection over ISDN-BRI telephone lines. You should use this option if members of your video conference are not connected to the Internet, or have low bandwidth connections.

For ISDN-BRI connections, there is an additional telephone charge not included in the fees listed below. The additional telephone charge is approximately six times the cost of a normal long distance phone call to the same location.

Multi-Site connections

If more than two sites will be connected for the conference, there will be charges for each additional site, per the connection type above, the fee schedule below, and the cost of bridging services. To provide multi-site connectivity, UIS utilizes an outside vendor to provide bridging services.

Fees

Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Room Rental Fee (no Technician): $60.00/hour

Room Rental with Technician Fee:  $75.00/hour

Evenings, Weekends, and Holidays

Room Rental Fee $100.00/hour

Minimum 4 hour charge on weekends

For more information on these services, please contact Barry Catelinet from UIS at 202-687-5471 or send email to catelinb@georgetown.edu.

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Video Delivery

Video Delivery is the ability to send a video signal on campus from point A to point B without carrying the signal over the CATV network. An example might be sending a video feed from graduation to other campus locations, or to the Hoyanet CATV station (channel 3). This also can include sending a video signal to the AVOC off-campus delivery system that allows television stations to receive the video signal.

Satellite downlinks

Satellite downlinks can be a video source to be routed to various locations for $60 per hour, plus the cost of the program content (video production). See below for more information on Video Production services.

Satellite uplinks

Satellite uplinks are contracted out. The cost of a satellite uplink van is approximately $3000 per half day. Depending on your particular needs, you might consider video conferencing, or using AVOC to link to major media outlets.

For more information on these services, please contact Barry Catelinet from UIS at 202-687-5471 or send email to catelinb@georgetown.edu.

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Video Streaming

The Library and CNDLS are collaborating on a Web-streaming project. Web streaming is essentially hosting movies and other video content on a high bandwith web server to make these available online. This project provides over 1,000 webcasts of language lab materials; faculty projects; the Provost?s Seminar lecture series; media oriented discussion panels; and high level events sponsored by GU officials. Since its inception in September 2003, the project has served over 14,000 connections and features approximately 650 gigabytes of content.

Please click here for a listing of archived and upcoming webcasts.

For more information on these services, please contact Peter Janssens from CNDLS at 202-687-5766 email to paj6@georgetown.edu.

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Video Production

UIS can provide on-site video taping of important guest or visitor presentations for archival purposes. Contact Barry Catelinet or Warren Fearer to make arrangements for these services. Time and material charges apply.

Currently there is not a centralized professional grade video production facility at the Main Campus or Medical Center, nor is there an official university videographer.

CNDLS provides in-classroom videotaping of faculty lectures, student interviews, and focus groups. They also loan equipment and can provide staffing for a fee. Click here for more information on this service from CNDLS.

CETS provides loaner video equipment and can also provide video recording services for a fee. Video recording services are restricted to the ICC Auditorium and Galleria areas. Click here for more information on these services from CETS.  

At the request of individual sponsors, The Office of Communications records high level events on video, and assists with audio/video interviews with GU faculty experts. The Office of Communications charges a fee for this service, and they may use outside vendors, internal office resources (limited), trained student interns, or UIS staff to do the taping. For some institutional events (such as NSO and Commencement), GUTV is contracted to provide the service.  Other departments, institutes, and centers work individually with outside vendors, including GUTV. Click here for more information on this service from the Office of Communications.

The Gelardin New Media Center has video editing equipment and software available for students, faculty, and staff to use in its video production rooms. This software provides non-linear editing and allows you to export your video to an online format, or to edit and record back to videotape. Both digital and analog video capture and editing is possible in the Multimedia Editing Rooms. Click here for more information about this service from the Gelardin New Media Center.

A setup of two VCR's that allows for VHS tape to tape duplication is available in the Public Workstation area of the Gelardin New Media Center. To schedule time to work on a project, contact the Gelardin staff, or sign up at the Gelardin Center service desk. All video production must comply with guidelines of the 1976 Copyright Law (Title 17, US Code), and the Copyright Task Force Report, GU Main Campus Libraries (March 1995.)

For more information on these services, please contact Barry Catelinet from UIS at 202-687-5471 or send email to catelinb@georgetown.edu.

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Video Consultation

Video Consultation is available for projects involving an array of video products and services including Web cams, plasma screens, security cameras, and desktop video or video-conferencing.

Areas of consultation include customer needs assessment, research, contract negotiation, purchase, installation, and maintenance issues.

For more information on these services, please contact Barry Catelinet from UIS at 202-687-5471 or send email to catelinb@georgetown.edu.