An overview of videoconferencing technology

Author

Paul, Grante, Jr.

Author_Institution

Adv. Inf. Syst. Center, Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1997

Firstpage

205

Abstract

Videoconferencing has progressed from being an expensive system used only by large corporations, to units which rapidly are becoming commodity items. This progress has been due to developments in terminal equipment, transports, and standards. This paper presents an overview of the latest developments and technology trends for group and desktop videoconferencing systems, and for circuit switched and packet switched transports. This paper also includes developments in multipoint and inverse multiplexing technologies and also presents an overview of the salient ITU-T standards for videoconferencing

Keywords

circuit switching; multiplexing; packet switching; telecommunication networks; telecommunication standards; telecommunication terminals; teleconferencing; ITU-T standards; circuit switched transports; desktop videoconferencing systems; group videoconferencing systems; inverse multiplexing; multipoint technologies; packet switched transports; terminal equipment; videoconferencing technology; Bandwidth; Cameras; Costs; Packet switching; Space technology; Standards development; Switching circuits; Teleconferencing; Video compression; Videoconference;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

MILCOM 97 Proceedings

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4249-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.1997.648702

Filename

648702