u to send questions or comments to: info@vcthewholepicture.com or visit us at www.vcthewholepicture.com James R. Wilcox, CISSP CONTENTS AN INTRODUCTION TO VIDEO COMMUNICATIONS WHAT Is VIDEO COMMUNICATION? THE HISTORY OF VIDEO COMMUNICATION FROM THE BOARDROOM TO THE DESKTOP THE MARKET FOR VIDEO COMMUNICATION CHAPTER 1 REFERENCES VIDEO COMMUNICATION APPLICATIONS VIDEO COMMUNICATION IN THE REAL WORLD SENIOR MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND CONSULTING FINANCIAL SERVICES MANAGEMENT OF MERGERS AND DECENTRALIZATIONS JOINT-ENGINEERING AND PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT CUSTOMER SUPPORT LEGAL AND JUDICIAL APPLICATIONS SURVEILLANCE EMERGENCY RESPONSE DISTANCE LEARNING DISTANCE TRAINING PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENTS TELEMEDICINE CHAPTER 2 REFERENCES CASE PROFILES AMERICA TRUE TEAM NAVIGATES COMMUNICATIONS CHALLENGE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCES PREVENTING NUCLEAR DESTRUCTION PAROLE: WEB CAMERAS REDUCE TIME NORTH SLOPE BOROUGH SCHOOL DISTRICT: A BIG COLD CLASSROOM DEUTSCHES FORSCHUNGSNETZ: RESEARCH & EDUCATION MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA: HEALTHCARE AND EDUCATION OVER DISTANCE THE ABORIGINAL PEOPLES VIDEOCONFERENCE HOWE PUBLIC SCHOOLS LEARN WITH VIDEO KAPI' OLANI MEDICAL CENTER XEROX PARC EXPERIMENT: MEDIA SPACES CHAPTER 3 REFERENCES THE BUSINESS CASE KNOW YOUR BUSINESS THE PROJECT PROPOSAL SELLING A RECOMMENDATION TIPS FOR COLLECTING DATA CHAPTER 4 REFERENCES THE HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY OF ANALOG VIDEO RADIO-SOMETHING IN THE AIR SPINNING Disks AND SHOOTING ELECTRONS TELEVISION STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY FROM LIGHT WAVES To BRAIN WAVES SCANNING AND FRAMING IN LIVING COLOR-NTSC CHAPTER 5 REFERENCES CODING AND COMPRESSION AUDIO ENCODING VIDEO ENCODING COMPRESSION: KEEPING ONLY THE CRITICAL BITS INTRAFRAME AND INTERFRAME COMPRESSION DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM VECTOR QUANTIZATION VIDEO COMPRESSION AUDIO COMPRESSION DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSORS CHAPTER 6 REFERENCES STANDARDS FOR VIDEOCONFERENCING THE ITU THE HISTORY OF THE Px64 STANDARD H.261 H.261 and CCIR Recommendation 601 H.261 Options Motion Compensation Forward Error Encoding 