Joint Utilization Tests of
Multimedia Communications


Outline
Various tests will be conducted aimed at the coming multimedia age, utilizing a high-speed backbone network that has already been established, in cooperation with information providers, manufacturers, and users. Each test will successively start from September 1994.

Objectives
New Applications will be created and developed by coordinating networks, user facilities, and software which are essential in the multimedia age. NTT will also establish network design and management technologies to cope with application.

Forms
1.Utilization tests of a high-speed backbone network
i. High-speed computer communications
ii.General-use multimedia applications
2.Utilization tests of CATV video transmissions