G7 Information Society
VH-TPD (GIBN & GHAP)
- Visible Human Trans-Pacific Demonstration -

SMU (Sapporo Medical University)
NLM (National Library of Medicine)
CRL (Communications Researcy Laboratoy)
NASA (National Aeronautics Space Administration)
NORTH (Network Organization for Research and Technology in Hokkaido)

GIBN (Global Interoperability for Broadband Networks)

Visible Human Trans-Pacific Demonstration

Press Release: in Japanese

Related Links

    APAN (Asia Pacific Advanced Network)

    TransPAC: APAN (IMnet/STA) <--TtansPAC --> vBNS (NSF)

    NLM (National Library of Medicine) in NIH (National Institutes of Health)

    NASA (National Aeronautics Space Administration)

    GIBN:Trans-Pacifice Digital Library Demonstration in Sapporo Medical University

You can find the free : performance endpoint software
Presented by H. Tatsumi, MD, PhD,
tatsumi@sapmed.ac.jp
Professor, Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine
Director, Information Center of Compputer Communication,
Sapporo Medial University

Hiroki Nogawa(SMU)
Fumio Aoki(SMU)
Hirofumi Akashi(SMU)
Masahiro Nakamura(SMU)
Masamichi Goudge(SMU)

Noto. Kadowaki (CRL)
Nozomu. Nishinaga (CRL)
Naoko. Yoshimura (CRL)
Takashi, Takahashi (CRL)
Acnowledgements: This project was partly supported by Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture (Monbusho) , Science Technology Agency (STA) , Ministry of Health and Wealfare (MHW) , Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) and Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT) in Japan. This work was also supported in part by Research for the Future Program of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science under the Project ``Integrated Network Architecture for Advanced Multimedia Application Systems"iJSPS-RFTF97R16301 ). 
Collaborators and participants list:

Canada:
	AT&T Canada, 
	BCnet, 
	CANARIE, 
	Communications Research Centre (CRC), 
	IMnet, and 
	Teleglobe Inc. 

Japan:
	Communications Research Laboratory (CRL), 
	Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, 
	Japan Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT), 
	JSAT Corporation,
	Japan Gigabit Network, 
	Kokusai Denshin Denwa Company, Limited (KDD), 
	Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, 
	Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT),
	NTT Communications, 
	Sapporo Medical University, 
	Soka High School, and 
	Sony Corporation 


U.S.:
	Apple Federal Systems, 
	California Institute of Technology, 
	Comsat, 
	Crossroads High School, 
	George Washington University, 
	GTE Hawaiian Tel, 
	Lockheed Martin, 
	Mentat Inc., 
	Mt. Wilson Institute, 
	NASA Glenn Research Center, 
	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 
	NASA Headquarters, 
	NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 
	NASA Research and Education Network, 
	National Library of Medicine/National Institute of Health, 
	Newbridge Networks Inc., 
	Pacific Bell/CalREN, 
	Pacific Space Center, 
	Sony Pictures High Definition Center, 
	State of Hawaii, 
	Thomas Jefferson High School, 
	Tripler Army Medical Center, and 
	University of Maryland.

International organizations, 
	Asia-Pacific Advanced Network 
	INTELSAT