The Multimedia Internet

Here Is A Thorough, Not-overly-complex 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 Well-suited Toward Non-specialists, Preferably With Technical Background, Who Need Well-composed Tutorial Introductions To The Three Foundation Areas. The Text Discusses The Latest Advances In Digital Audio And Video Encoding, Optical And Wireless Communications Technologies, High-speed Access Networks, And Ip-based Media Streaming, All Crucial Enablers Of The Multimedia Internet.