Network Technology for Digital Audio

Preface

Books of a technical nature suffer from a number of problems. Perhaps the most obvious is that technology progresses. What was once considered best practice in a particular field, may be regarded with derision at a later stage. Furthermore, recognized practices were once not recognized, whilst a book remains as a permanent record.

This book is about the transfer of audio data and other audio related data, over digital communications networks, and it is published at an exciting time for this specialist area. Although the Internet has made networks the property of the people, there were not previously the data rates available at the right cost to transfer the quantities of data (quantities that seemed impossible ten years ago, but will ...