SatCAST presentation and demonstration in Arendal

SatCAST presentation and demonstration in Arendal
For the presentation and demonstration of SatCAST, the SatCAST team flew to Arendal in Norway, where the Norwegian office of UNEP is located. Of the full photo coverage, a small extract is created here for your viewing pleasure.
The journey to Arendal, Norway
Waiting on Schiphol Airport, The Netherlands	The Amsterdam Arena, famous football stadium	Typical dutch scenery
Hilmar joins the party on Copenhagen Airport	Both Edwin and Gertjan are addicted to the now famous sport of collecting way-points	The Øresundsbron (bridge over the Sont between Danmark and Sweden)
Norway!	O dear, landed on the wrong airport, only a few hundred kilometers to the North!	Hurry, we might still be there in time!
Pfew, Kristiansand!	Welcome!	Norwegian water...
Yeah, Arendal, .com	The hotel (on a less beautiful day)	View from the Tyholmen hotel
View on the fjord from the hotel	Arendal harbour
The preparation
The official handover of SatCAST to UniSal in the person of Hilmar Linder	The official handover of SatCAST to NLR in the person of Edwin Wisse	I solemnly swear to install SatCAST, the whole of SatCAST and nothing but SatCAST
OK, now the real work. Getting some configuration items from Øystein Halvorsen of UNEP/GRID	Configuring NEONET	Working hard...
...very hard	Picture to fill up the presentation	The satellite dish for the Mercure network; we're gonna need that one!
They even put an extra dish in place! Just for us?	Will it work?	Yes! The master of NEONET succeeded again.
So, let's get this high quality way-point	Somewhere behind one of the windows in the tower, there is a webcam.	Current view on Arendal via the webcam
Norwegian speciality: sushi	Back to work again. Roberto in action.	Hello Nairobi, this is Arendal calling, what is your status?
The SatCAST backbone thingy
The presentation
Harald Holt of UNEP/GRID starts the seminar	Leo Root of West Consulting introduces the project and speakers	Roberto Donadio of ESA/ESTEC explains the background of the project
Hilmar Linder of UniSal plunges into the details of multicasting	The audience, all over the world, looks in ecstasy	Gertjan van Oosten explains how it is all combined in the SatCAST architecure
Then Jelle van Zeijl shows off...	... some spiffy GUI	Oops, the demo effect
Let's swiftly switch to Edwin Wisse for his demonstration of NEONET	Finished by an 'extroduction' of Harald Holt	The historic moment of handing over SatCAST 1.1 to the first user: UNEP
The finalisation
The end.	And then, there is: Real Arendal's beer	Invited by UNEP to end the stay with an excellent dinner
...with an international company: 2 from Norway, 1 from Kenya, 1 from Italy, 1 from the USA, 1 from Switzerland, 1 from Hungary (or Rumania), 1 from Austria, and 4 from The Netherlands	Also waving goodbye to Beat Peter	Skol!
Back home. Bye bye!