Internetworking Multimedia

  • Authors:
  • Jon Crowcroft;Mark Handley;Ian Wakeman;David Clark

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Internetworking Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

From the Publisher:Increasingly, businesses are turning to Internet-based multimedia communication as a tool to use internally and as the foundation for online services that can be sold to customers. Whether the goal is videoconferencing, distance learning, telemedicine, or real-time entertainment broadcasts, demand for expertise in the underlying technologies is growing rapidly.Internetworked Multimedia offers students, systems engineers, network administrators, and product developers a complete guide to today's approaches to Internetworked multimedia. Combining coverage of technological principles, middleware, and applications, this book prepares technical readers to contribute in a variety of roles, from strategic decision-making to implementation to ongoing administration. FeaturesWritten by a team of highly respected authors serving on committees formed to define standards for Internetworked multimedia; covers all the latest protocols for exchanging sound and moving images across the Internet in real time.Addresses topics of special interest to implementers and administrators, such as network service models, security, application support, and problem resolution.Examines issues affecting the user's experience, including session creation, announcement, and invitation, collaboration, and media-on-demand.Combines low-level technical information, a critical assessment of the state of the art, and a keen vision of the medium's potential-in a single up-to-date resource.