Networking technologies for future video communications

This paper describes advanced networking technologies that support high quality video and image communications. We focus on maintaining Internet compatibility and extracting the merit of ATM technologies. A concept of Global Mega-media Network (GMN) is introduced as the future multimedia network. As part of work associated with GMN, an overview of AMInet project and some of the promising technologies are described. It is demonstrated that proposed resource reservation protocol virtually supports switched VCs so that we can enjoy the merit of ATM through Internet compatible applications for video communications.

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