Overview
- The text answers the question: "What are the important technical concepts for the delivery of audio/visual and other media through the Internet?"
- An excellent overview for non-specialists with a technical background working in communications, coding, Internet protocols and services, and in industries relying on electronic media
- In greater part also accessible to non-technical readers
- Provides a plethora of clear, succinct explanations and illustrations
Part of the book series: Information Technology: Transmission, Processing and Storage (ITTP)
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About this book
This text is a light technical introduction to the three technical foundations for multimedia applications across the Internet: communications (principles, technologies and networking), compressive encoding of digital media, and Internet protocol and services. All the contributing systems elements are explained through descriptive text and numerous illustrative figures; the result is a book pitched toward non-specialists, preferably with technical background, who want descriptive tutorial introductions to the three foundation areas. The text discusses advances in digital audio/video coding, optical and wireless communications technologies, high-speed access networks, and IP-based media streaming, all crucial enablers of the multimedia Internet.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Multimedia Internet
Authors: Stephen Weinstein
Series Title: Information Technology: Transmission, Processing and Storage
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-27603-3
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-23681-0Published: 30 March 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-3652-3Published: 05 January 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-27603-8Published: 15 February 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 384
Number of Illustrations: 317 b/w illustrations
Topics: Communications Engineering, Networks, Multimedia Information Systems, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Computer Communication Networks, Coding and Information Theory