Abstract
The principal motivation behind every design of the next generation computer and communications networks is the universal access to multimedia information. Multimedia communication simply refers to the transmission of multimedia information over networks. Multimedia, in specific means any kind of data, voice, graphics, still images, audio, and video. This chapter explains the basic components of multimedia communications network and further elaborates these components in detail by developing common examples of multimedia communications. The ultimate goal is the universal delivery of multimedia content via seamless network connectivity. The commercial demand for the resulting services is large and growing steadily because of new technological advances, heightened public expectations, and lucrative entrepreneurial opportunities, therefore technological innovations and new solutions that facilitates the multimedia communication are being developed every day. Furthermore, products are being developed to extend the capabilities in all existing network connections to support multimedia traffic.
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