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Current big applications areas in Multimedia include:
- World Wide Web
- -- Hypermedia systems -- embrace nearly all multimedia
technologies and application areas. Ever increasing popularity.
- MBone
- -- Multicast Backbone: Equivalent of conventional TV and Radio on the
Internet.
- Enabling Technologies
- -- developing at a rapid rate to support ever
increasing need for Multimedia. Carrier, Switching, Protocol, Application,
Coding/Compression, Database, Processing, and System Integration Technologies at
the forefront of this.
Dave Marshall
10/4/2001