Assembly Television in high bandwidth Multicast over FUNET Assembly 2000 computer festival (http://www.assembly2k.net/) is the biggest and most well-known event of multimedia magicians and young computer enthusiast in the world. Since 1992 Assembly has gathered the youth to compete in multimedia and computer demos and to meet others like-minded people and of course to have fun. Over 3500 visitors from 20 different countries are expected to attend the long weekend happening starting from Thursday, August the 3rd to Sunday, August the 6th. Assembly competitions and atmosphere have been broadcasted to the Internet over last two years. This year Assembly is breaking a world record on its own field: the whole event will be broadcasted live to the Internet and to cable TV in the metropolitan area in Finland. The whole weekend is filled with multimedia, demos, graphics, music, competitions, party reports, talkshows and interviews, 80 hours live. In addition to Sonera Live's Realvideo and Windowsmedia streams, AsmTV will be broadcasted in high bandwith Multicast (MPEG-1 and H.261) as a part of the FUNET-TV project (http://tv.funet.fi) over the Finnish University Network, FUNET. The AsmTV's multicast at the partyplace and in FUNET is based on Cisco System's IP/TV-technology. If your Internet connection supports Multicast from FUNET you will be entitled to watch the show in high quality video on your computer. Welcome to see the whole Assembly 2000 event at AsmTV, www.asmtv.net. Contacts: AsmTV: Ville Vaten (vvaten@mail.niksula.cs.hut.fi) CSC/FUNET: Leif Laaksonen (Leif.Laaksonen@csc.fi) Harri Salminen (Harri.Salminen@csc.fi)