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High-Speed Multimedia Networks: Critical Issues and Trends

High-Speed Multimedia Networks: Critical Issues and Trends
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Author(s): Dimitris Kanellopoulos (University of Patras, Greece)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 13
Source title: Handbook of Research on Telecommunications Planning and Management for Business
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): In Lee (Western Illinois University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-194-0.ch049

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Abstract

This chapter presents high-speed networking technologies and standards such as Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Fast Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Synchronous Optical Network (SONET), Resilient Packet Ring (RPR), Provider Backbone Transport (PBT), Provider Backbone Bridges (PBB), Transport - Multi Protocol Label Switching (T-MPLS) and Optical Transport Network (OTN). It considers the requirements imposed to high-speed networks by multimedia applications and analyses crucial issues of high-speed networking such as bandwidth problems, discarding policies and fast broadcast. Finally, the chapter discusses future trends in high-speed multimedia networking.

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