A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR TRANSPORTING MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION OVER HIGH-SPEED LINKS USING AN ETHERNET TYPE NETWORK INTERFACE

摘要

Multimedia information, voice, video, image, and data, is transported over a cell switching communications network to a multimedia switch that performs cell to frame and frame to cell conversions. With a negotiated quality of service and explicit rate flow control with RM cell priority, the frames are transported over a high-speed link to a remote desktop, which contains an Ethernet type network interface device for processing the frames. The high-speed link is typically a digital subscriber line twisted pair or coaxial cable via a cable modem.