A multimedia client to the IBM LAN server

File system redirection is an established technique in personal computer local area networks for providing location transparent file access. This paper argues that redirection can be used for multimedia file access, and considers the extensions needed in the client, server, transport and network subsystems to enable multimedia redirection. Results are presented on an IBM LAN Server prototype which provides quality of service guarantees to multimedia clients on the Token Ring.

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