Data Broadcasting: Merging Digital Broadcasting with the Internet, Revised Editi

Data broadcasting will produce global changes to the way media is created, distributed and used, both professionally and privately. Now fully updated this revised edition continues to be a truly groundbreaking volume presenting an exhaustive overview of the specific data broadcasting and bordering technologies concerned.

• Features new sections on wireless communications
• Explains how data broadcasting can solve traffic problems on the internet
• Discusses the technical implications of data broadcasting over different network infrastructures
• Examines the process of developing and launching multimedia channels in a data broadcasting environment

Data Broadcasting equips executives and developers in the telecommunications, software, hardware and media industries with an invaluable analysis of the main commercial, editorial and technical opportunities that data broadcasting can provide.

Table of Contents

Foreword.

Acknowledgements.

List of Tables.

List of Figures.

The Evolution of Broadcasting.

The Internet.

Broadcasting Meets the Internet.

Technology Framework for Data Broadcasting Environments.

The Five Basic Formats of Data Broadcasting.

Implementing a Data Broadcasting Platform.

Data Broadcasting: The Media Opportunities.

Creating Data Broadcasting Applications and Services: 26 Steps.

Operating Networks of Multiple Data Broadcasting Channels.

The Commercial Drivers Behind Data Broadcasting.

Data Broadcasting in the Future.

Glossary of Terms.

Index.