1993 Volume 32 Issue 4 Pages 354-363
The public network is expanding its service from current ISDN to broadband ISDN. In the local area network (LAN) area, a low cost 100 Mb/s LAN is coming. These digitization and high bitrate trends of networks are offering good environments to transferring multimedia information.
The standards and their implementation for compression coding to transfer visual media are in progress Those may be good evidence that the multimedia information age is coming.