A distributed system to support multimedia applications

Real-time Multimedia applications (interactive and non-interactive) are becoming an important part of today's networks. Such applications are gaining popularity for both the Internet and Corporate Intranets. In order to allow the current and future network structures to support such high bandwidth and resource hungry applications, a form of distributed processing is necessary. This focus of this paper is to discuss the design and implementation of such a distributed system, using multimedia conferencing as an example. The distributed system (distributed network entities) is implemented in a black box style format, It here the inputs, outputs and requirements of the black box are clearly defined.