Multimedia over the Broadband Network: Business Opportunities and Technology

Format: Softcover, 431 pages
ISBN: 0-933217-21-8
Price: $392

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. Business Issues

• Multimedia—Evaluating the Market
• Multimedia Communications Revolution: Standards Process
• Making Money in Multimedia
• The Economics of Infrastructure Upgrades
• The State of the Info Superhighway
• Technology and Business Choices for Residential
• Multimedia Services
• Business Issues for Telecommunications Firms Serving the SOHO Marketplace
• Teleworking Dynamics in the SOHO Market: Views of an Interexchange Carrier
• Quality of Service: Point of View of Multimedia
• Communications Forum on Multimedia Interoperability
• The What, Who, Why, How, and When of the Internet
• The Internet and Its Impact on the Telecommunications Industry
• Who's Using the Internet: Measuring the Digital Consumer
• Unlocking the Real Value of the Internet
• Secure Commerce on the Internet

II. The Broadband Network

• Supporting Multimedia and Other Evolving Applications Using Broadband
• Digital TV, Full-Service Networks, and the Information Superhighway
• Broadband Support for the Development of Distributed Multimedia Systems
• Architecture Planning: What's Important?
• Broadband Access Networks of the Future
• Operations Support for Full-Service Networks
• End-to-End Multimedia Service Management Enabling Collaboration in a Distributed Enterprise Environment
• Transporting Multimedia over Enterprise ATM Networks
• Traffic Engineering of Enterprise ATM Networks for Multimedia
• Video and ATM: A Look at Networked Digital Media in ATM LANs
• HDTV, MPEG2, and Contribution Quality Advanced Video Services
• Fiber-to-the-Curb: Broadband Evolution Considerations and Alternatives
• The Set-Top Terminal of the Future

Intelligent Networks and Multimedia

• Internet Broadband Networking

III. Technical Issues

• ATM/MPEGII Aspects of Multimedia and Video Conferencing
• MPEG-2 Systems Specification: Blueprint for Network Interoperability
• Management and Handling of Distributed Hypermedia/Multimedia Documents
• Speech and Audio Coding for Multimedia and Communications Applications
• An Objective Model for Video Quality Evaluation
• Multimedia Synchronization over Broadband Networks
• On the Spatiotemporal Synchronization of Multimedia Objects
• Control of Jitter Delay in Continuous Multimedia Applications
• Storage Servers for Video-on-Demand Services
• Software Platform-Aided Fabrication of Multimedia Technology Models and Prototypes
• Virtual World Databases
• Technology Issues in Providing On-Line and Internet Service

IV. Developing Multimedia Products and Services

• Thinking Interactively
• Interactive Applications for Next-Generation Networks
• Interactive Multimedia: A Case Study of the New York Times
• Bringing Interactive Multimedia Services to Market
• Constructing Distributed Multimedia Business Applications over ATM
• Developing a Brand in a Competitive Multimedia Environment
• Two-Way Interactive Advertising in the Information Society
• Broadband Full-Service Networks and Distance Learning
• Unified Messaging and the Internet
• Experience of an Internet Provider
• The Promise of Internet Marketing