3rd Edition

Videoconferencing The Whole Picture

By James Wilcox Copyright 2000
    632 Pages
    by Routledge

    632 Pages
    by Routledge

    This text aims to help the reader understand all aspects of videoconferencing. It includes: an overview of the history and technology; a section on security for Internet-based videoconferencing as well as expanded coverage of standards.

    1: Part One Videoconferencing:Terms, Conceptas And Applications; 1: An Introduction to Videoconferencing; 2: Videoconferencing Applications; 3: Case Studies; 4: The Business Case; 2: Technologies and Standards For Video Communications; 5: The History and Technology of Analog Video; 6: Coding and Compression; 7: Standards For Videoconferencing; 8: Standards For Audiographic Conferencing; 9: Standards For Conferencing Over IP Networks; 10: Circuit-Switched Networks; 11: Packet-Switched Networks; 3: Evaluating & Buying Video Communication Systems; 12: Group Systems; 13: Implementing Group-Oriented Systems; 14: Personal Conferencing; 15: Evaluating & Buying A Personal Conferencing System; 16: Information Security & Video Communications; 4: The Future; 17: The Future of Video Communications

    Biography

    James R. Wilcox has more than two decades of experience in the communications industry and is an executive with Sprint in Portland, OR.