Broadband Applications and the Digital Home

Herausgeber: Turnbull, John; Garrett, Simon

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This fascinating book explores the technological challenges and applications of providing fast, 'always-on' internet connections to the home. Current delivery mechanisms of broadband into and around the home are explored in depth.

Produktdetails

• Telecommunications
• Verlag: Institution of Engineering & Technology
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: Dezember 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780852964286
• ISBN-10: 0852964285
• Artikelnr.: 40188395

Inhaltsangabe

Part One: Delivery to the home
Chapter 1: Broadband Access Technologies
Chapter 2: Satellite - A New Opportunity for Broadband Access
Part Two: Networking the Home
Chapter 3: Introducing Home Area Networks
Chapter 4: Broadband in the Home
Chapter 5: Residential Gateways
Chapter 6: Home Area Network Technologies
Chapter 7: Standards for Broadband Customer Premises Equipment
Part Three: Living in the Home
Chapter 8: Domesticating Broadband - What Really Matters to Consumers
Chapter 9: Is the Future Really Always-On?
Chapter 10: Digital Living - People Centred Innovation and Strategy
Chapter 11: Digital Homes - For Richer For Poorer, Who Are They For?
Part Four: Applications
Chapter 12: Clients, Servers and Broadband
Chapter 13: Bandwidth-on-Demand Networks - a Solution to Peer-to-Peer
Chapter 14: A 3-D Telepresence Collaborative Working Environment
Chapter 15: A Virtual Studio Production Chain
Part Five: The future digital home
Chapter 16: Personal Virtual Humans - from Inhabiting the TalkZone to Populating the Digital Home
Chapter 17: Hype and Reality in the Future Home