Kim, Kicheon and Simpson, Steven and Hutchison, David and Scott, Andrew (1995) Transition to High-Speed Networks — SuperJANET Experience. In: ICCC '95 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on computer communication on Information highways : for a smaller world and better living: for a smaller world and better living :. UNSPECIFIED, Korea, 793 - 797. ISBN 90-5199-240-8
Abstract
For the time being, trials to establish the Information Superhighway are booming. In Britain, JANET has provided wide-area computer communication, and has recently been upgraded to SuperJANET, increasing the throughput by a factor of five to 10 Mb/s, with some sites having PDH access at n × 34 Mb/s. In this paper, the technological changes seen from a user perspective are addressed. A multimedia communication-based distance learning project on SuperJANET is introduced and the network performance measurements for this project are presented. These measurements suggest the employment of reservation protocol and packet scheduling. We also provide a mechanism for on-the-fly playback of continuous media.