Title :
Distributed telecommunications services
Author :
Fonseca, José Benjamim ; Carrapatoso, Eurico Manuel
Author_Institution :
Univ. de Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal
Abstract :
Distributed systems emerged in the last decade as a more efficient way of sharing networked resources, allowing cooperating processes to be executed in remote computers with possibly distinct architectures and operating systems. This paper presents the motivations that may lead to the usage of distributed architectures in the support of telecommunications services, particularly multimedia services. It also gives an overview of one distributed architecture, ANSA, which was used to implement a prototype of a distributed multimedia service, briefly described
Keywords :
broadband networks; multimedia communication; network operating systems; telecommunication services; ANSA; broadband services; computer networks; cooperating processes; distributed architecture; distributed architectures; distributed multimedia service; distributed systems; distributed telecommunications services; networked resources sharing; operating systems; Application software; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Distributed computing; Multimedia systems; Network servers; Operating systems; Programming profession; Telecommunication computing; Telecommunication services;
Conference_Titel :
Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, 1996., Nineteenth Convention of
Conference_Location :
Jerusalem
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3330-6
DOI :
10.1109/EEIS.1996.566881
