nizational mission Local Access and Transport Areas (LATAs), statement, 55 mission and values lossless compression, 97, 451 linking videoconferencing to lossy compression, 98, 451 organizational goals, 55 low-pass filter, 451 Modified Final Judgment, 190 luminance, 451 modulation, 454 monitor placement within a videoconferencing room, 271 as a rating of light sensitivity, 256 mortgage lender LWZ coding, 452 case study, 25 MAC address, 184 MOSPF macroblocks, 119 how it works, 185 making the videoconferencing business case motion compensated prediction business first, 55 as part of B-frame coding, 341 Management Recruiters Inc., 58 motion compensation, 100, 454 Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, 67 motion vectors, 100, 104, 118 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 9 MPEG, 308, 337, 339, 455 MCI, 199 MPEG-1, 455 MCNS, 216, 217 P-frame, 460 MCU, 4, 42, 121, 125, 127, 147, 263, 264, Simple profile 265, 293, 371, 376, 452, 457 definition, 347 MCUs, storage of a database, 376 techniques used to code image sequences, ME/U, 32 MPEG 4 media space, definition, 47 Media Spaces: Bringing People Together in a Video, Audio and Computing 2 Profile, 347 Environment, 47 MPEG-1, 107, 292, 337, 339, 340, 342, 343, Index 344, 345, 346, 347, 348, 358, 359, 394, multiplex, 456 455, 483 Multiplexing how it works, 343 North American digital hierarchy, 94 MPEG-1 parts, 343 Multipoint Computer Application Sharing MPEG-1 syntax, 339 Protocol, 146 MPEG-2, 86, 122, 123, 177, 228, 337, 339, multipoint conferencing etiquette, 280 340, 344, 345, 346, 347, 348, 350, 354, multipoint control unit, 120 356, 357, 358, 359, 434, 436, 455, 482, 483 multipoint control unit (MCU), 4, 121 how it differs from MPEG-1, 347 multipoint personal conferencing, 290 MPEG-2 High Profile, 347 multipoint videoconferences, 4 MPEG-2 levels, 345 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension MPEG-2 parts, 344, 350 (MIME), 453 MPEG-2 profiles, 346 Mx384, 112 MPEG-2 Simple Profile, 347 named Michael Faraday, 66 MPEG-2 SNR Scalable Profile, 347 narrowcast, 457 MPEG-2 Spatia