Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, pp. 76-86, May 1994.
Abstract:
This paper presents a novel network architecture for distributed
multimedia systems. The VuNet is a gigabit-per-second desk/local-area
ATM network which interconnects general-purpose workstations,
network-based multimedia devices and bridges to other networks.
During the course of an application, media streams are exchanged
between the workstations and devices in a seamless manner. This
architecture has several advantages over traditional
workstation-centric systems including the ability to share multimedia
devices and to reduce the burden of multimedia tasks on the
workstation. This paper describes the VuNet philosophy, the VuNet
hardware, and presents the results of experiments in which high
bit-rate video streams are transported across the system.
