An integrated multimedia communication system for enterprise networks

Recent advances in high performance computers and high speed broadband networks have opened the realms of exciting new enterprise wide multimedia applications. Broadband multimedia applications over enterprise networks requires appropriate communication protocols and enhanced networking infrastructure to provide sufficient quality of service. Our paper presents an architecture of a communication system for manufacturing multimedia applications. The architecture guarantees better quality of service for real-time multimedia applications. It is based on an ATM intelligent network interface board based on a processor and a field programmable gate array components. The board implements flexible high-level real-time data services and relieves the host from networking load. The board implements a manufacturing message specification (MMS) multimedia application service element.