Music beyond boundaries unites people in Georgia and Russia

Russia and Georgia have lately been in a state of a deep political conflict. Yet, the two countries share a lot in common:  history, culture and, most importantly, people. The Old New Year Dmitry Kiselev's program "National Interest" on Russia's biggest national TV channel gathered some of the very famous Georgeans in TV studios in Moscow and Tbilisi.

Famous actors, musicians, writers, film directors, and most importantly, old friends, they were exchanging warm memories, funny stories and were wishing each other love, peace and prosperity. Not a word about politics - yet, the program participants were in fact separated by the political boundaries escalated after October 2006.

The production of Georgia-Russia "National Interest" TV program. December 21, 2006

It was for the first time that side-by-side with satellite TV bridge there was a low-latency Internet audio/video bridge enabled by Musigy Music Conferencing technology. Using this "music" Internet TV bridge the musicians in two studios performed together creating a warm atmosphere of love, peace and mutual understanding with a universal language of music.

The technology room of the studio in Ostankino TV Tower in Moscow. Musigy video feed is the rightmost one in the second row from the bottom.

The quality of Musigy audio and video streams was presumed to be equal to the quality of the satellite's streams. Musigy video feed was shown on the studio's giant videowall without any significant distortions. The latency of streams delivered with Musigy Music Conferencing technology via Internet was much less than those delivered via satellite links while the costs of Internet bridges appear to be significantly lower than those of satellite bridges.