Pandora: An Experiment in Distributed Multimedia

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dc.contributor.authorKing, Tonyen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-21T07:20:12Z
dc.date.available2014-10-21T07:20:12Z
dc.date.issued1992en_US
dc.description.abstractAn experimental workstation is described which supports digital video and audio in a distributed environment, and which presents this functionality to the user through the medium of a video-extended implementation of the X Window System. The Pandora Workstation is built out of two quite separate parts. A standard UNIX machine (the Pandora Host) brings standard hardware and software computing resources to the system- a highly-specialised processing engine (Pandora s Box) handles the high-bandwidth, time-critical, and device-dependent processing. A 50 Mbit/second ATM network provides for real-time data communication within the system. Nineteen Pandora Workstations have been deployed within Olivetti Research Ltd and the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory, and are used routinely to run distributed applications including video mail, video conferencing, and real-time media delivery services.en_US
dc.description.number3en_US
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forumen_US
dc.description.volume11en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1467-8659.1130023en_US
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659en_US
dc.identifier.pages23-34en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8659.1130023en_US
dc.publisherBlackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Associationen_US
dc.titlePandora: An Experiment in Distributed Multimediaen_US
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