Requirements and solutions for integration of multimedia services on the desktop

The use of networked multimedia by various industry sectors, in relation to particular business activities. Effective multimedia systems are required to handle very large amounts of information represented in a variety of forms, from unformated text through to full motion video. Full desktop multimedia solutions will require development work in areas beyond the PC or workstation itself namely; LANs, network multimedia servers, and software tools. Also, the communication networks must provide several key features such as high capacity, variable bandwidth, synchronisation of different types of traffic and support for different types of data flow (isochronous and asynchronous)