Telecommunications Essentials

Multimedia on the Internet: Streaming Media

There's such a wide variety of applications for multimedia on the Internet that we're only just beginning to consider where and how we can use visualization and other sensory information. There are three major categories of multimedia on the Internet: communications applications (including VoIP, video telephony, and video and multimedia conferencing applications), computer applications (including interactive rich media, videomail, and streaming audio, video, and media content), and entertainment applications (including broadcast video, video-on-demand, and network games). This section concentrates on streaming media, and in Chapter 15, “The Broadband Home and HANs,” we'll explore the fantastic future ...