Why isoEthernet will change the voice and video worlds

Author

Platt, Richard

Author_Institution

Incite, USA

Volume

34

Issue

4

fYear

1996

fDate

4/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

55

Lastpage

59

Abstract

The answers to many of the communications problems businesses face lie in the integration of telephony, data collaboration, and video communications with the desktop computer, doing it inexpensively, doing it seamlessly with the local area and wide area networks. The adoption of isochronous Ethernet (isoEthernet) by the IEEE 802.9 committee as the new multimedia standard in LANs has given rise to new technology that converges voice, collaborative video, and data at the desktop. The official name for isoEthernet is ISLAN16-T, and it is sponsored by the IEEE 802.9 committee. IEEE 802.9a, the document specifying the isoEthernet standard, became an official standard at the end of 1995. The intent behind the ISLAN16-T standard is to define a LAN transport capable of handling synchronous services such as voice and video while retaining compatibility with 10Base-T. ISLAN16-T opens the door to a multitude of new applications that can reshape work and communications habits to make businesses more productive, responsive, and profitable

Keywords

IEEE standards; business communication; local area networks; multimedia communication; telecommunication standards; telephone networks; 10Base-T; IEEE 802.9; IEEE 802.9a; ISLAN16-T; LAN; data collaboration; isoEthernet; isochronous Ethernet; local area networks; multimedia standard; synchronous services; telephony; video communications; wide area networks; Bandwidth; Business communication; Computer networks; Geography; Local area networks; Multimedia systems; Telephony; Videoconference; Wide area networks; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/35.489713

Filename

489713