Specifically written to address the business opportunities and challenges facing corporate managers, this book is also intended for use by corporate planners, communications managers, consultants and other telecommunications network professionals. The book focuses on the networked aspects and requirements of multimedia, describing how today's desktop multimedia systems will continue to evolve towards client/server applications and remotely distributed systems. It addresses such topics as video-conferencing, platforms (PCs and workstations), digital video encoding techniques and ATM advances in WANs.