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MBONE: Multicasting Tomorrow's Internet, IDG Books, 1996
Chapter 2: Today's Technology
- Audio quality and compresion: CVSD (continuous variable slope deltamodulation) for 8:1 not crisp at 12K samples/sec, GSM (Global System for Mobile telecommunications) for higher quality even at 6 kHz but needing faster computers
- Maven: 1st audioconferencing tool for Mac
- NetPhone: Mac, UNIX, commercial, audioconferencing, improvement over Maven, 4-16 kHz
- Speak Freely: Windows and UNIX, free, audioconferencing, GSM, 14.4 +
- Internet Phone: Window, commercial, audioconferencing, proprietary compression, 14.4, works with IRC
- Intenet Talk Radio (discontinued)
- RealAudio
- NPR (National Public Radio)
- VOA (Voice of America)
- IUMA (Internet Underground Music Archive)
- Virtual Radio
Chapter 3: MBONE and Multicasting
Chapter 4: Where the MBONE Came From
Chapter 5: An Armchair MBONE Session
Chapter 6: MBONE Events
Chapter 7: Why the MBONE Matters
Chapter 8: Research Applications
Chapter 9: Hardware and Software
Chapter 10: Bandwidth and Storage
Appendix A: Host Extensions for Multicasting: RFC 1112 (in collection of RFCs)
Appendix B: Requirements for Multicast Protocols: RFC 1458
Appendix E: For More Information
- Slides by Casner
- Article by Casner and Deering