Chapter 14 is the last chapter with prognoses, trends and visions for multimedia in the net.

Chapter 13 gives an overview of signaling protocols for multimedia communication. The chapter provides a brief introduction in signaling and sessions, SIP basics and signaling for instant messaging.

This chapter introduces multimedia conferencing and gives examples for applications. It also describes the typology of multi-point conferences and briefly overviews different standards for multimedia conferencing.

This chapter gives an overview of the production and management of multimedia content. This includes topics about encoding and transcoding of multimedia content, media production chains and media asset management.

This chapter introduces electronic books and magazines. It gives a brief overview of history and terminology of electronic books and introduces different ebook formats. The ePUB Standard is discussed in more detail to finish this chapter.

Chapter 9 covers the topics Web Radio, Web TV and IPTV. It gives several examples for each topic and points out some trends regarding these services.

This chapter gives an overview of streaming architectures (high-level streaming architecture, real-time data transport, scalabitily and multicast). The chapter finishes with selected commercial streaming architectures like QuickTime or Windows Media.

This chapter gives an overview over metadata and its concepts in general. The generic metadata standard MPEG-7 and selected metadata-relevant standards are introduced. The chapter concludes with automated extraction of multimedia metadata.

This chapter introduces cryptographic techniques (symmetric and assymetric). It also includes digital signatures and describes public key infrastructures.

This part finishes Chapter 5. In this second part watermarking is explained in more detail and DRM standards as well as commercial solutions are presented.