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Protocols, Servers and Projects for Multimedia Realtime Systems

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  • © 1997

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  1. Dimitris N. Chorafas
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. How to Use Telecommunications Protocols and Gigastreams

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. What’s the Sense of the Information Superhighway?

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      Pages 3-24

    3. Telecommunications Protocols to Fulfill Business Opportunities

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      Pages 25-50

    4. Appreciating the Implementation of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)

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      Pages 51-83

    5. Synchronous Digital Hierarchy, SONET and Other Protocols for Telecommunications

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      Pages 84-110

  3. The Race for Multimedia Servers and their Implementation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111
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    2. Business Perspectives of Interactive Multimedia

      • Dimitris N. Chorafas
      Pages 113-139

    3. Multimedia Servers, Communications Solutions and their Software

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      Pages 140-165

    4. Practical Applications of Multimedia and Virtual Reality

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      Pages 166-192

    5. The GreenSpace Project and the Future of Multimedia

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      Pages 193-217

  4. Projects on High-Performance Computers and Networks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219
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    2. The High Performance Communications and Computing (HPCC) Programme in America and its Challenges

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      Pages 221-248

    3. Research Projects in Telecommunications and Parallel-Computer Programming

      • Dimitris N. Chorafas
      Pages 249-274

    4. What’s the Return-on-Investment on Taxpayers’ Money Spent on HPCC?

      • Dimitris N. Chorafas
      Pages 275-300

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 301-330
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About this book

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.

About the author

Dimitris 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'Université de Genève, Ecole Polytechnic Fédérale 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. Chorafas is the author of 160 books, translated into several languages world-wide.

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