Virtual Campus is a project of the Department of Higher Education, Government of Kerala and the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala (IIITM-K) named as Kerala Education Grid (KEG). It aims at linking all institutions of higher education in the state via broadband Internet and by satellite in order to create a `knowledge network’ of such institutions.

With the implementation of projects such as `Kerala Education Grid’ and ` Education Server’, schools and colleges can start offering quality e-resources to students, irrespective of the geographic location of students and teachers.

This will eliminate at one stroke the problem of expertise in one subject being available at one place and the demand for this expertise existing in another place. As water flows from a higher level to the lower, knowledge too would flow in the grid from where it is to where it is needed.

Packet Cable defines a multimedia system architecture that overlays a high speed cable modem access network, with the goal of enabling, a wide variety of internet Protocol based multimedia services, such as voice over IP, unified messaging, video conferencing and on line gaming.

This seminar begins with a brief summary of the developments made in the cable industry during the past years and then puts light on the core capabilities necessary to implement VoIP, online gaming etc. in a scalable fashion. This paper also explains the functional components needed in packet cable architecture and some possible next steps in the evolution of packet cable.