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From the Publisher: The need to support multimedia in ODP environments in a major challenge when setting up such networks. This book has been written specifically to address the problems of supporting multimedia applications, such as desktop conferencing, multimedia email, video on-demand systems and virtual reality environments, in ODP standards and platforms. This book provides an introduction to the field of ODP, with detailed descriptions of ISOs, RM-ODP, OMGs, CORBA and Open Groups DCE a description of the requirements of distributed multimedia applications (in terms of support for continuous media, quality of service, real-time synchronization and mutliparty communications) an evaluation of these ODP platforms with respect to their support for multimedia a detailed description of an architecture for ODP standards and platforms supporting multimedia a description of two proof-of-concept …