RTP

ALSO CALLED: RealTime Transport Protocol, Real-time Transport Protocol, Real Time Transport Protocol, RTTP, and Real Time Protocol
DEFINITION: The Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) is an Internet protocol standard that specifies a way for programs to manage the real-time transmission of multimedia data over either unicast or multicast network services. Originally specified in  … 
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RTP DEFINITION (continued): …  Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Request for Comments (RFC) 1889, RTP was designed by the IETF's Audio-Video Transport Working Group to support video conferences with multiple, geographically dispersed participants. RTP is commonly used in Internet telephony applications. RTP does not in itself guarantee real-time delivery of multimedia data (since this is dependent on network characteristics); it does, however, provide the wherewithal to … 
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