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N e t w o r k A p p l i c a t i o n s a n d
P e r f o r m a n c e P r o j e c t
Objective
The Network Applications and Performance (NAP) project is developing
expertise in designing and implementing systems for the delivery of audio
and video services over a range of new telecommunication networks.
Introduction
The NAP project is conducted by the ANSPAG group, which comprises Monash
University, Siemens, and Telstra as core partners. The project has made
substantial progress in achieving its objectives as stated in the
Commonwealth Agreement. These objectives were to build a base of
expertise in new telecommunications technologies including asynchronous
transfer mode (ATM), build a versatile network testbed, create an
understanding in the community of the capabilities of new networks, and
stimulate the development of applications. The project has achieved all
its first year milestones stated in the Commonwealth agreement, and has
met its new milestones set each year.
The project was formally reviewed in July 1997 by Dr Bob Cooper from the
United Kingdom who played a key role in the development of broadband
networks in the UK. Dr Cooper stated that RANSPAG has succeeded in
creating a strong, integrated and coherent project. It has developed a
state-of-art network testbed and has used the testbed to support the
development of two applications that make effective use of high quality
video communication. The applications have been developed with the
cooperation of a real user community and one application is already
deployed in production use.S Dr Cooper also stated that RSeveral
international IT companies have commented that they consider ANSPAG to be
among the top centres for advanced networking in the world.
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