Title :
Multimedia multiparty services to native ATM desktops
Author :
Ouibrahim, H. ; van den Broecke, J.A.
Author_Institution :
Bell Labs., Lucent Technol., Huizen, Netherlands
Abstract :
Telecommunications, computing, and video technologies are rapidly converging, creating a new multimedia industry that will serve emerging markets on the information highways. To support these evolving communications demands, computer vendors, switching product providers, communications carriers, and users are looking to ATM as the unifying technology to provide seamless services. ATM, if brought to the user, will indeed provide him with increased power and performance. This promise however can be fulfilled only by bringing the virtues of ATM to the desktop. This paper introduces a European Project to tackle on one hand the challenge of bringing ATM to the desktop and on the other hand adding value to ATM. Bringing ATM to the end user has meant bridging the ATM Control Plane functions with those of the User Plane using a middleware type functionality. To add value to and optimize the use of ATM, a service platform making use of this middleware was designed and implemented.
Keywords :
asynchronous transfer mode; groupware; information networks; multimedia communication; multimedia computing; performance evaluation; ATM Control Plane; European Project; User Plane; communications carriers; computer vendors; end user; information highways; middleware; multimedia industry; multimedia multiparty services; native ATM desktops; performance; service platform; switching product providers; video technology; Asynchronous transfer mode; Communication industry; Communication switching; Computer industry; Design optimization; Middleware; Multimedia computing; Road transportation; Telecommunication computing; Telecommunication switching;
Conference_Titel :
High Performance Distributed Computing, 1996., Proceedings of 5th IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Syracuse, NY, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7582-9
DOI :
10.1109/HPDC.1996.546189