互联网正迅速成为集成多媒体（语音/视频/图形/数据）通信的工具。它可能会在其标准和协议中吸收其他完善的技术
Internet is fast becoming the vehicle for integrated multimedia (voice/video/graphics/data) communications.<br>It may absorb within its standards and protocols other well-established technologies, such as telephony, facsimile, messaging, data and entertainment technologies.<br>Its fastest growing service, the World Wide Web, has created a true information revolution and is daily pushing the limits of current technologies to cope with its growth.<br>Internet technologies have become a discipline in themselves. The Internet Protocol (IP) continues to dominate as a standard for ubiquitous global communications, and other Internet standards (for example, DiffServ, RSVP) are quickly emerging to offer quality of service on the Internet.<br>There is a need to train professionals at the graduate level in this area, where expertise is required beyond basic undergraduate experience.