Distributed multimedia through broadband communications Daniel Minoli and Robert Keinath

By:

Minoli, Daniel, 1952-

Contributor(s):

Keinath

Material type: Text

TextSeries: The Artech House telecommunications libraryPublication details: Boston London Artech House 1994ISBN:

0890066892

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

004.6 MIN

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	Moylish Library Main Collection	004.6 MIN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002000301706

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Specifically written to address the business opportunities and challenges facing corporate managers, this book is also intended for use by corporate planners, communications managers, consultants and other telecommunications network professionals. The book focuses on the networked aspects and requirements of multimedia, describing how today's desktop multimedia systems will continue to evolve towards client/server applications and remotely distributed systems. It addresses such topics as video-conferencing, platforms (PCs and workstations), digital video encoding techniques and ATM advances in WANs.

Cover title: Distributed multimedia through broadband communications services

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Introduction
The Multimedia Environment
Technology -- UNIX Workstations
Technology -- Local Networking
Technology -- Wide Area
Compression Standards and Communication Implications
Applications -- Desktop and Traditional Videoconferencing
Applications -- Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Applications Examples and Reliance on Communications

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Daniel Minoli has been a network consultant to Teleport, DVI Communications, and Bellcore. recently played a key role in the foundation of two networking companies: Global Nautical Networks, a provider of mobile Internet and data services to marinas, and InfoPort Communications Group, an optical and Gigabit Ethernet metropolitan carrier. He has also taught at New York University, Stevens Institute of Technology, Carnegie-Mellon University, and Monmounth University. An author of best-selling books on telecommunications and data communications, he has written columns for ComputerWorld, NetworkWorld, and Network Computing. He is the author of Telecommunications Handbook, Second Edition, also published by Artech House.

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