Telecommunications Essentials

Multimedia Networking Requirements

Today's networks simply were not built for multimedia and, in particular, for applications that involve video communications, multimedia collaboration, and/or interactive-rich media. Curiously, it is through the application of sophisticated computer applications and devices that we have been able to determine what the human information processing model is comprised of: There is a very strong tendency for us to rely on the visual information stream for rapid absorption and longer retention. More than 50% of a human's brain cells are devoted to processing visual information, and combined with the delights of sound, smell, and touch—despite our enormous dependence on the written word—we're very active in processing ...