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The Multicast Dissemination Protocol (MDP) is a protocol framework and 
software toolkit for reliable multicasting data objects.  A primary 
design goal of MDP is to provide a reliable multicast protocol approach 
which is suitable for reliable dissemination of data over both wireless 
and wired networks.

MDP software has been demonstrated across a range of network architecture 
and heterogeneous conditions including; the worldwide Internet MBone, 
bandwidth and routing asymmetric network connections, high delay satellite 
networks, and mobile, radio networks.  MDP version 2, the latest software 
release and ongoing work, integrates numerous multicast protocol advances 
including highly robust, packet-based erasure correction techniques and 
adaptive group timing mechanisms.

The present MDPv2 software release has a defined API library and several 
example working applications including a multicast file transfer applications 
and a very basic multicast chat application. To learn more and/or download 
the software see the following sections.