Multimedia Networking Handbook99th Edition (Best Practices) - Hardcover

Cavanagh, James P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0849399491 ISBN 13: 9780849399497

Publisher: Auerbach Publications, 1998

Synopsis

Multimedia technology represents the biggest technological breakthrough since the computer. As an IT professional, you must prepare your organizations' network infrastructure for all the "real-time" multimedia applications to come.

Multimedia Networking Handbook will teach you how to bring all the benefits of multimedia to your company. Prepare your IT infrastructure for audio, graphics, animation, full-motion video-all types of real-time multimedia applications. This one, irreplaceable handbook gives you easy to understand material on issues such as latency and bandwidth, critical technologies and standards such as FDDI, ATM, frame relay, SONET, B-ISDN and wireless technologies, as well as practical information from top experts at leading-edge companies such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Siemens and MCI. You'll learn how to:

Reduce costs and add services with new band-width saving techniques

Expand your network's capacity, leverage your infrastructure and safeguard your network's privacy

Prepare your network for the stringent requirements for two-way interactive video

Lower WAN costs, enhance access capability and make faster upgrades with frame relay

Find out key networking options for supporting bursty data on LAN and WAN

Get a quick overview of how digital speech works

About this title

Synopsis

Shows how to bring all the benefits of multimedia to a company and build an infrastructure for all types of real-time multimedia applications. Each section covers an important portion of multimedia networking issues, including voice communications over multimedia networks, constant-bit-rate data services, video communications, technologies for mult

Edition details

• Publisher: Auerbach Publications
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0849399491
• ISBN 13: 9780849399497
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416