Broadband hypermedia

This paper describes ongoing work on integration of broadband services into a distributed hypermedia system. The services under consideration are video telephony, video conferencing, transfer of multimedia information and support for cooperative work. Milestones in the evolution of this system were: provision of a workstation based multimedia platform, adding capabilities for distributed data retrieval, implementation of basic hypermedia features and finally enhancement with broadband service components in order to support joint interactive working in a conferencing environment. This level of integration allows us to introduce the notion of broadband hypermedia. Realizations of the hypermedia prototype on networks using ATM-, MAN- and STM-technology are reported.