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Internetworking Multimedia
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.
* Written 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.
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.
* Written 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.
500 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1999
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