February 2007
Intermediate to advanced
1104 pages
27h 48m
English
Now that you know how distributed quality of service (DQoS) provides premium service for telephone calls, the focus shifts to other applications for DQoS and PacketCable. Back in the very first chapter you learned that cable providers are expanding their service offerings to include applications such as videoconferencing, streaming media, interactive gaming, and telephony. Telephony is just the beginning; PacketCable can be used to provide a guaranteed and reliable network for any of these service offerings.
The architecture and protocols used to provide these services are defined under the PacketCable Multimedia (PCMM) specifications. PCMM provides the ability to provide quality of service (QoS) over a Data-Over-Cable ...