Coming to networks near you: multimedia moves toward mainstream with server hosting video, sound; narcotics police use video dragnet. (includes a related article on multimedia applications used by law enforcement agencies) (Client/Server Computing Special Edition)

From: Software Magazine | Date: September 15, 1992| Author: Polilli, Steve | Copyright information

There are several obstacles to the use of multimedia applications in client/server architectures: the limited bandwidth of current networks, the large amount of storage space required by multimedia applications, and the lack of network-based application building tools. It is also difficult to justify the use of several complicated media in a client/server environment unless it can be shown that the application will truly benefit from the added information provided by multimedia. Instructional...

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