Broadband and Multimedia Services: Current Developments, Applications, and Technologies

Format: Softcover, 397 pages
ISBN: 0-933217-37-4
Price: $392

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. Business Issues

• Multimedia Future Evolution: Dealing with the Transition of Network Planning
• Broadband Challenges and Opportunities
• Broadband Deployment Options
• Life Experiences with Multimedia
• The Information Superhighway: The BellSouth Road Map
• Broadband Infrastructure: Options and Challenges before the Year 2000
• Switched Multimedia Service: Standard Telecommunications Offerings in the Year 2005
• Telecommuting: Drivers, Issues, and Challenges
• The Technology, Drivers, and Future of Telecommuting
• Broadband Access Networks in the Future
• Searching for Broadband Profits
• The Current Public Network Discontinuity

II. Broadband Networks and Architectures

• Evolution of Transport Network Architectures
• Broadband Networks: A Look at Alternatives
• Management of Broadband Network Communications
• Public Key Cryptography: Improved Network Security and Support for E-Commerce
• Network Security for a Broadband NII
• A Different Signaling and Control Paradigm for ATM Services
• An ATM Network-Evolution Concept for Broadband-Network Deployment
• A Software Architecture for Multimedia Broadband
• Interactive Broadband Services and PCS Network Architecture
• Messaging, Signaling, and Broadband Protocols
• Implementing National Frame-Relay Networks
• Two-Way Voice and Data Services on Hybrid Fiber/Coax (HFC)
• Integrated Voice, Video, and Data Service over the Final 100 Meters of Connectivity

III: Evolving Access Technologies

• Cable Modems—A Multiple System Operator's Perspective
• Broadband Service Delivery and Cable Modem Interoperability
• ADSL Transport of Video and High-Speed Data Services
• Optimizing ISDN to Give More Capacity at Less Cost
• A New Paradigm—Broadband Digital Wireless

IV. The World Wide Web, Multimedia, and Delivery over the Internet

• Internet Traffic on the Telecommunications Network: Problems and Solutions
• Internet over Broadband
• Internet Appliances
• Multimedia, Video, and World Wide Web Server Technology
• The Business of Secure Electronic Commerce

V. Video and Interactive Multimedia Services

• Valuing and Supporting Interactive Multimedia Services
Applications Are Not Easy...Or Are They?
• Video Applications and Network Requirements
• MPEG Video Quality
• High-End Digital Video Applications
• Delay Issues in Videoconferencing
• Video over ATM

VI. End-User Considerations

• What Do Broadband Customers Expect from Vendors?
• Do Users Find Video and Multimedia Useful? A Review of Empirical Findings
• Delivering Value-Added Functionality in a Mass-Market Broadband Network Environment
• Customer-Premises Networks Come Home
• Ensuring Successful Interactivity for the End User
• Creating Value through Quality: Services Based on Customer-Valued Results