Real-time Streaming Protocol (RTSP)

Abstract

The traffic in the internet is becoming more and more involved with multimedia
applications. To cope with such bandwith-demanding data, specific protocols have been
created. The most difficult area is realtime (or realtimish) streams that enable us to make
such things as video phonecalls and remote group works in much more efficient way. Real
Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), offers robust protocol that can stream multimedia over
multicast and unicast in "one to many"-applications. Although the full advantage of RTSP
can be harnessed only after most of the Internet is upgraded IPv6, there are already some
implementations available.