Protocols, Servers and Projects for Multimedia Realtime Systems [Paperback]

This book addresses the changing role of networks and the evolving structure of an Infrastructure Superhighway. The requirements for leadership in telecommunications are reviewed from different viewpoints: Network operators, equipment manufacturers, software developers and user organizations. Emphasis is placed on multimedia and what multimedia solutions would mean to telephone utilities and endusers. Based on extensive research undertaken in Europe, US and Japan, Dimitris Chorafas identifies new domains of applications, presents the breakthroughs which have currently been achieved and outlines the systems solutions necessary to fruitfully exploit new technology.Foreword; Professor Jessen - What's the Sense of the Information Superhighway - Telecommunications Protocols - Applying New and Old Protocols to Systems Solutions - The Business Perspectives of Interactive Multimedia - Multimedia Servers and Their Software - Practical Applications of Multimedia and Virtual Reality - Disk Forms for Multimedia Applications - Is Optical Storage Complementing or Competing with Magnetic Disk Forms? - Challenges and Benefits from Realtime Visualization - Developing and Using Advanced Human Interfaces - Desk Area Networks, Local Area Networks and Metropolitan Area Networks - Parallelism goes MainstreamDimitris N. Chorafas served on the faculty of the Catholic University of America and as Visiting Professor at Washington State University, George Washington University, University of Vermont, University of Florida, and Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States, as well as the University of Alberta, Technical University of Karlsruhe, Ecole d'Etudes Industrielles de l'Universit? de Gen?ve, Ecole Polytechnic F?d?rale de Lausanne, Polish Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Sciences. More than 8,000 banking, industrial and government executives participated in his seminars in the United States, England, Germany, Italy, other European countries, Asia and Latin America. Cló„