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Infrastructure to set up Virtual Academy
Setting up Virtual Academy requires huge infrastructure to begin with and resources to develop right content for the courses offered. Aravind is pooling in the resources in bringing the infrastructure and develop course content. Aravind is working with an organization, Igrande supported by Director – Technology, Rastrapathi Bhavan Office, New Delhi which has developed the complete software and systems that would facilitate in setting up the Virtual Academy.
A data centre would be set up at Aravind Madurai with high capacity servers (comprising of minimum 5 servers) that would have following as the components:
- Virtual Tele-education delivery system
- Content management system
- Digital library: virtual library server
- E-learning system
- E-governance Suite
A full fledged multimedia studio with virtual set up with video cameras, audio mixers etc. will be deployed for live transmission of interactive lectures over the virtual academy network. The synchronized delivery output of audio, video will be fed into the streaming server which is further interfaced with the telee-education delivery system components. This set up provides a means for the VSAT based education programmes to be broadcasted from the studio
Network Connectivity:
A full fledged satellite bandwidth of 800 kbps – 1 mbps and return bandwidth (inbound) of 128 kbps connectivity for 4 stations between Aravind Madurai which would act as central hub and the virtual classrooms at other Aravind centres is required for seamless interaction and delivery of the content over the network.
The video standard used is MPEG 1 with hardware encoding and software decoding and effective video stream can be transmitted in bandwidth from 512 to 1 mbps with frame rate of 25 fps.
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