MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATION
MODULE 1: MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS
TOPIC: MULTIMEDIA NETWORKS
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Multimedia Networks:
• There are five basic types of communication network that are used to provide
multimedia communication services
Telephone networks
Data networks
Broadcast television networks
Integrated services digital networks
Broadband multi-service networks
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TELEPHONE NETWORKS -PSTN
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POTS
• Plain Old Telephone Service (POTs)
• Collection of interconnected voice-oriented public telephone networks, both
commercial and government-owned.
• The term switched means a subscriber can make a call to any other telephone on
the ‘total’ network.
• Telephones in the home or in a small business are connected directly to their
nearest local exchange/end office.
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Private branch exchange (PBX)
• Telephones in a large office are connected to a private switching office
• PBX provides free service between two telephones that are connected to it
• A PBX is a telephone system within an enterprise that switches calls between enterprise
users on local lines while allowing all users to share a certain number of external phone
lines.
• The main purpose of a PBX is to save the cost of requiring a line for each user to the
telephone company's central office
• PBX is connected to the local exchange and this enables phones connected to the PBX to
make calls through PSTN too.
• Cellular phone networks – Provides service to mobile subscribers.
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DIGITAL TRANSMISSION USING MODEM
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TELEPHONE NETWORKS
• Circuit mode:
• Telephone networks operate in this mode - a separate circuit is set up through the network for each
call for the duration of the call.
• Access Circuits:
• Link the telephone handsets to a PSTN/PBX and carry two-way analogue signals associated with a call
• Modem
• Device needed for transmission of digital bits through analog access circuits. - converts D to A at
source, A to D at destination. - call set-up and termination.
• Earlier supported 300bps. Due to advanced DSP -56kbps.
• With high bit-rate channels, high resolution audio and video can be accessed for entertainment services
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MULTI SERVICES VIA H-S MODEM
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DATA NETWORKS
• Designed to provide basic data communication services
• email and general file transfer
• User equipment's
• X.25 network (low bit rate data)
• Internet (Interconnected Networks)
• Communication protocol
• set of rules (sequence, syntax) that are adhered to by all communicating parties for the
exchange of information.
• OSI - Open System Interconnection (OSI).
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TYPES OF NETWORKS CONNECTED TO INTERNET
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TYPES OF NETWORKS CONNECTED TO INTERNET
• ISP – Internet Service Provider
• Site/campus network
• Enterprise-wide private network.
• Local area network (LAN
• Intersite backbone network
• Internet backbone network
• Intranet
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NETWORKS CONNECTED TO INTERNET
• Packet - Container for a block of data - with address of the recipient at its head - used to
route data in the network.
• All types of network are connected using a gateway/router to the internet backbone
network.
• Router - a router is a device/software in a computer, that determines the next network
point to which a packet should be forwarded toward its destination.
• Packet mode – Operates by transfer of packets - as data is in discrete block format.
• With the new multimedia PCs packet mode networks are used to support in addition to the
data communication applications a range of multimedia applications involving audio video and
speech.
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Broadcast Television Network
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Broadcast Television Network
•Broadcast of analog TV programs to a wider geographical area via a
cable distribution network – town/city & satellite /terrestrial
broadcast network – larger area.
• A cable modem integrated into the STB - provides both
• a low bit rate channel (connects the subscriber to the PSTN ) and
• a high bit rate channel (connects to the Internet) from the subscriber back to the
cable head-end.
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Satellite/terrestrial broadcast Network
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• Satellite and terrestrial broadcast networks
• Cable distribution network
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Integrated Services Digital Networks
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DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER LINK
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BROADBAND MULTI SERVICE NETWORKS
• BROADBAND
• B-ISDN
• N-ISDN
• ATM- Asynchronous transfer mode
• ATM networks / Cell-switching network.
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BROADBAND MULTI SERVICE NETWORKS
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