Interactive multimedia service platform using the ATM transport engine for business and institutional communities

This paper describes the architecture of an interactive multimedia service platform in addition to implementation techniques based on the ATM transport engine under consideration. To support the interactive multimedia service, office environments need to integrate retrieval, on- demand, communicative, messaging and transactional capabilities into multi-homed hosts and heterogeneous infrastructures. Especially the various over ATM' and service provisioning mechanisms have to be considered in an evolutionary view of the platform.