No technology in the last five years has had a more profound impact on IT and the academic community as audio- and video-over-IP. Here, SunSITE has played a leadership role — not just locally, but regionally and nationally as well — in defining the issues and in developing solutions. SunSITE was a founding member of the Video Development Initiative, an international cooperative which promotes the deployment of digital video in research and higher education. SunSITE was responsible for one of the first Internet-based radio stations — WUTK — and continues to broadcast WUOT, the local PBS affiliate, over the Web. SunSITE created a successful testbed and developed a business plan for what became the University's Digital Media Services. In 1999, SunSITE and the Center on Deafness were awarded an LSVNP grant to look at the specific barriers IP videoconferencing for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. In 2001, SunSITE, in collaboration with SURFnet and the University of California, Berkeley, successfully tested the use of MotionJPEG for high-quality streaming video and full duplex videoconferencing. Partnerships and Projects:      UT Center on Deafness      Video Development Initiative (ViDe)      WKCS-FM      WUOT-FM      WUTK-FM Publicity:      TV-quality Internet Coming [The Daily Beacon, 10 January 2002]      UT Tests High-Quality Internet Video [UT Press Release, 18 December 2001]      Live Transatlantic Videostream Using MotionJPEG-over-IP Implemented [Supercomputing Online, 13 December 2001]      UTK Helps Test Videoconferencing System [UT Press Release, 18 October 1999]      UT Working on Internet-based Research Video Network [UT Press Release, 24 August 1998]