AN EXPERIMENTAL ARCHITECTURE SUPPORTING MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS ON BROAD-BAND NETWORKS

This work describes a part of a two years Bellcore/CSELT collaborative research agreement on broadband internetworking services, to investigate service requirements for supporting multimedia applications on heterogeneous broadband networks and specifically explore the interworking of ATM and IEEE 802.6 based networks. The effort will be on the experimentation on a real environment of a multimedia application that can stress the networks, to serve as a testbed for multimedia services research. This paper presents a multimedia application chosen for the experiment, a reference architecture under investigation and the structure of the service management software.