The Jupiter Project

was set up in the beginning of 1996 to provide in the course of two years EURESCOM shareholders adequate answers to three major questions:

• How should Multimedia Services be designed so that they can be accessed and used easily ?
• How should the network parameters of interconnected local and broadband wide area networks be set up so that the overall quality of Multimedia Services is accepted by the end-user ?
• What has to be done to enable different implementations of DAVIC compliant systems to exchange high quality video streams (MPEG2) and multimedia applications (MHEG5) controlled by a standardized user protocol ?