Multimedia Technology - General & Miscellaneous, Telecom & Datacom Systems, Electronics - Digital, General & Miscellaneous Computing, Telecommunications Technology, Communications Industries
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Overview
Learn all about the basic technologies for information transfer and networking - the hardware and the software, along with compression standards and techniques for transmitting data most efficiently. Then find out about the networks that link us together, from your home telephone and cable TV to office-sized LANs to the World Wide Web. Finally, see how communications networks harness the power of multimedia computers to create new applications and enhance old ones. At the same time, discover how you can make the most of these capabilities. You don't need to slog through a lot of mathematical equations and exotic programming terms to learn what these developments mean for you, your business, and your family. Jump right into an exciting world where movies can be delivered straight to your home computer and video conferencing takes place over an ordinary telephone line.Editorials
Booknews
Seeks to a provide a global overview of multimedia computer and communication technologies while avoiding complex technical descriptions. Covers computer technologies such as video for Windows, QuickTime, Indeo, and Digital Video Interactive; compression standards and techniques including Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), and Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG); types of local and wide area networks such as Ethernet, asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), and synchronous optical network (SONET); intranets and the Internet; broadband communication services; videoconferencing; and business, healthcare, and entertainment applications of multimedia. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
December 30, 1997
Publisher
Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall PTR, 1998.
Pages
443
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780130799678