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Multimedia Servers: Applications, Environments, and Design
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Author: Dinkar Sitaram, Asit Dan
List Price: $68.95
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ISBN: 1558604308
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (15 January, 2000)
Edition: Hardcover
Sales Rank: 414,678
Average Customer Rating: 4 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 4 out of 5
Good introductory text
This book is a good introduction to the theoretical aspects of multimedia server technology. The book helps in providing an idea about the various requirements for mutimedia servers and the schemes/algorithms used to satisfy these requirements. However this book is not for someone who wants to set up a video server using commercial software and is looking for tips on how to configure it. This book is suitable for someone who is interested in conducting research on multimedia servers or wants some background knowledge on the topic.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Altogether, a very good buy
"Multimedia servers" is actually an introduction to the subject of implementing rich contents applications over data-networks, focusing on the design of high-bandwidth servers. The treatment of the many disciplines (e.g. communications, server architectures, storage issues, stream scheduling) is not well balanced. A lot of the volume is devoted to storage, while hardware/system architecture is briefly discussed. However, since this book seems to be a pioneering work in this emerging field, I find it most useful for any newcomer to the subject. The book includes a wealth of references as well as many field and simulation statistics results, being crucial to any developer in the field. Altogether, a very good buy.
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