1 Standards for MM COMM
2 Interpersonal
3 Interactions over the Internet
4 Entertainment
5 Protocol Basics
6 A/V Conferencing in Circuit-mode Networks
7 Audio-Visual Conferencing Standards in Circuit-mode Network
8 T.120: Standards for User Data App. Media types T.124: sharing of text for what is known as text char T.126: still-image and whiteboard sharing T.127: sharing of file contents T.128: sharing of text documents and spreadsheets Communications T.122: MCU procedures T.125: MCS procedures T.123: a series of network-specific transport protocols all of which provide a reliable transport service
9 Multiplexing Multiplexing of audio, video, and data streams together for transmission over the network H.221 TDM: fixed portions of bandwidth are allocated H.223
10 System Control H.242 Negotiation of the bandwidth/bit-rate to be used for each stream Inform the multipoint controller part of MCU of its capabilities (e.g. video format, A/V compression standards, T.120 user data applications, proposed bit rate of each channel) Then, MCU negotiates and agrees a minimum set of capabilities H.245 Exchange of messages for negotiation capabilities Opening and closing of logical channels Transmission of the contents of the multiplex table, choice of adaptation layers
11 H.323: A/V Conferencing over Packet- switched Network
12 Call Setup procedure using H.323 Gatekeeper H.323 gatekeeper Limit # of concurrent calls to provide QoS quarantee in LAN environment
13 H.323 multiplexing/demultiplexing
14 Interworking using an H.323 Gateway
15 IETF Interpersonal Communications SIP/SDP
16 over Internet SMTP, RFC 821 POP3, RFC 1939 IMAP MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions), RFC 2045
17 Protocol Stacks for over Internet
18 Gateway
19 Information Browsing
20 E-Commerce Network Security PKI
21 Movie/Video-on-demand: telephony
22 Movie/Video-on-demand: Cable TV
23 Interactive TV: Digital TV Video: MPEG-2 Audio: MEPG Layer 2 (PAL), Dolby AC3 (NTSC, ATV/GA) TV Program Multiplexing TS format