IT-UDS believes this maintenance should done as a standard maintenance contract offered by the equipment reseller. The conditions and prices should be further discussed
ATLAS
40-4-C01
CMS
40-R-B10
40-2-A01
40-5-A01
40-2S-A01
40-2S-B01
ALICE
160
LHCb
???
Services
Room operation support
PC maintenance
Projector maintenance
VRVS Support
Event recording
Live Webcasting
Video storage and serving
Live event retransmission between CERN amphitheatres
Manpower
Technical Support
1 operator (funded by IT-UDS)
1 operator (unfunded post as from 1st September)
Engineering
1 VRVS PJAS (funded by IT-UDS)
1 videoconference engineer (unfunded post)
1 software engineer (unfunded post)
Open questions
room refurbishing
Which rooms for ATLAS, LHCb and Alice?
Should each experiment pay for equiping "its" rooms?
If so, what does "its" mean? How can we define the level of priority for booking the rooms?
Or should all experiments contribute to a common fund in view of this global equipment?
If so the contributions could be calculated according to the relative usage of the rooms
The contributions could be spread over the expected life time of the systems (5 years)
The contribution could be added as a forfait also including other services (filming, webcasting...)
videoconference equipment maintenance
Which maintenance contract should be established? (more details about the different possibilities will be provided at a later stage)
VRVS support
What kind of support could CERN and the experiments provide to Caltech in order to preserve the service?
IT-UDS already contributes to VRVS support by hosting a PJAS (which activity goes far beyond CERN). In the current situation, IT-UDS feels its contribution should not go further