Evaluation of teleteaching services over ATM and IP networks

This paper presents the components of a synchronous teleteaching application, their underlying technology and their interaction with network services. In addition, it presents the architecture and design of a synchronous teleteaching application used over the public ATM network in Greece. This paper presents various teleteaching scenarios over an ATM network infrastructure with the use of native ATM and IP over ATM. In each scenario we present the standards used, the logical components, the resource demands (network and equipment) and its special characteristics. For each scenario we give detailed information about the transmission and frame rates and the video delay. The main result of our experiments is that broadband networks offer many capabilities for high quality teleteaching, and generally speaking, high quality telematic services.