Broadband Applications and the Digital Home

by J. Turnbull, S. Garrett

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780852964286
Publisher:	The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Publication date:	12/06/2002
Series:	BTexact Communications Technology Series , #5
Pages:	379
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface
Part 1 -Delivery to the home
1: Broadband access technologies - Enrico et al
2: Satellite - a new opportunity for broadband access - Fidler et al
Part 2 - Networking the home
3: Introducing Home Area Networks - J G Turnbull
4: Broadband in the home - K E Nolde
5: Residential Gateways - P M Bull et al
6: Home area network technologies - C E Adams
7: Standards for broadband customer premises equipment - R I Galbraith
Part 3 - Living in the digital house
8: Domesticating Broadband - what consumers really do with flat rate, always on fast internet access, Anderson et al
9: Is the future really always on? From always on networks to always on sessions - M R Gardner et al
10: Digital Living - People centred innovation and strategy - B Anderson et al
11: Digital Homes - for richer for poorer, what are they for? - P A Rout
Part 4- Applications
12: Clients ,servers and broadband - making a big difference - Russ & Fisher
13: Bandwidth-on-demand networks - a solution to peer to peer file sharing - Clark & Tsiaparas
14: Computer vision for a 3-D visualisation and telepresence collaborative working environment - Xu et al
15: The Prometheus project - the challenge of disembodied and dislocated performances - Thorne & Chatting
Part 5- The future digital home
16: Personal virtual humans - inhabiting the Talkzone and beyond - Ballin et al
17: Hype and reality in the future home - Patel & Pearson.