Performance comparison of video transport over ATM and ServerNet interconnects

Abstract

The authors discuss the implementation of iPOINT Video Server and Video Client applications along with rate-control feedbacks and network loss handling mechanisms. They report experimental results for ATM and ServerNet, using 60 MHz SparcStation20s (SS20), 30 MHz SparcStation10s (SS10) and 100 MHz Pentium (P5) systems as video servers. The study compares CPU utilization and corresponding video throughput of these platforms, running Solaris 2.5 and WindowsNT 3.51, respectively. They show how these network interfaces affect the behavior of these hosts as video servers and thereby the quality of served video.