User's Manual

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enhances the quality of streaming video without any configuration
required by the user.
Target Applications
High speed internet connections are making interactive
applications such as online games, VoIP, file and application
sharing, and video conferencing more popular. These new
technologies work very well, but people run into problems when
they try to use more than one application at the same time. Here
are some examples of when this can happen:
- A hard-core gamer notices his online first-person shooting game
starts to “lag” or behave erratically when others in the house surf
the web or do e-mail.
- A manager of a small office subscribes to a VoIP service to
reduce long-distance phone bills. She is frustrated when her calls
break up when someone else in the office sends an e-mail
attachment.
- A father uses a web cam to monitor his children at home with
the babysitter. He has to remember to turn off the file sharing
application on his home computer before leaving in the morning.
When it is on, the video from the web cam gets disrupted.
- A manager with a single home computer wants to run a late-
night training session for her worldwide sales force from home.
The internet connection has plenty of bandwidth, but it can’t seem
to handle both sharing the presentation and the VoIP call both
reliably and at the same time.