HP UX 11i Networking Links and Transports manual Conformance to RFCs, Product architecture

hp-ux multimedia streaming protocols white paper

December 2004

conformance to RFCs

This implementation of MSP on HP-UX 11i v1 and HP-UX 11i v2 conforms to the following Request for Comments (RFCs):

RFC 1889 - RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications RFC 2326 - Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP)

RFC 2327 – SDP: Session Description Protocol

Figure 1 depicts the architecture of the MSP software that is supported on the HP-UX 11i v1 and HP-UX 11i v2 operating systems.

figure 1. MSP architecture

Product architecture

The MSP framework comprises RTSP and SDP modules in the user space and the RTP and RTCP modules in the kernel space. Applications can use the APIs provided in the user space MSP library to access the kernel components, namely, RTP and RTCP.

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