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The paper provides an overview of the Demonstration System and Pilot Trials of the ISIS project (Interactive Satellite multimedia Information System), commissioned by the European Commission within the frame of ACTS 4th Framework Programme and coordinated by Alenia Spazio.
The ISIS objective is to demonstrate the technical and economical feasibility of Interactive services (Interactive TV, INTERNET, Teleducation, Telemedicine) via satellite, in the framework of multimedia applications. ISIS will utilise Ku band for the forward service and Ka band for the return interactive link, mainly supporting an asymmetric traffic.
The experimentation, which is the object of this paper, conducted in the ISIS frame will be the forerunner of an operational system able to provide symmetric interactive services (videoconference, teleducation), fully exploiting the wideband capability in forward and return direction given by the use of the Ka band.
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Carducci, F., Giubilei, R. (1997). ISIS Project Demonstration System and Pilot Trials. In: Fdida, S., Morganti, M. (eds) Multimedia Applications, Services and Techniques — ECMAST '97. ECMAST 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1242. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0037379
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