Reliable Multicast Transport Protocol

Reliable Multicast Transport Protocol (RMTP) is a technology to distribute multimedia documents such as electronic newspapers and marketing information to a large number of users simultaneously in an effective manner. This technology is a result of a joint study program between IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory and NTT Information and Communication Systems Laboratory.

• A brief description of RMTP

  Description(PS) Description(text)

  Ver.2 Press Release Ver.2 Press Release(Japanese)

• History of RMTP

Publications

• RMTP version 1 protocol specification

  Protocol Spec (Internet draft)

  In Japanese(PS) Readme (Conditions)

• RMTP version 2 protocol specification Protocol spec (Internet draft)
• RMTP-related publications

• Discuss RMTP application potentials
  • Delivering electronic newspaper --- distributing newspaper through network
  • Distributing software to a large number of WS/PC
  • Distributing marketing and price information to branch offices and salesmen
• Hyper Delivery --- An IBM-Japan program product based on RMTP

  RMTP mechanism is now available as a product "Hyper Delivery". IBM also offers system integration services that use Hyper Delivery. A trial subset of Hyper Delivery program is available for evaluation. For more information about Hyper Delivery, contact: yamanouc@trl.ibm.co.jp.