Development of a media server system based on the DAVIC standard

Interactive multimedia systems with guaranteed service quality require complex integration of servers, broadband networks and terminals. In the future such systems might become common, even reaching individual homes but this requires development of new standards in order to achieve interoperability comparable to the Internet. The task for devising standardized end-to-end solutions for interactive networked multimedia systems has been recently undertaken by the Digital Audio Visual Council (DAVIC), a body including all major players in this area. We describe development of DAVIC compliant media server. The server integrates the DAVIC, DSM-CC, CORBA and ATM systems.