This course explains and discusses key concepts of Multimedia networking, including: Introduction: Digital Audio, Graphics and Video, voice over IP (VOIP); Characteristics of multimedia; Multimedia Perceptual Quality: Frame rate, Delay, Jitter, Loss; Compression standards; Real Time Multimedia Applications, Desk Top Conferencing, Video Conferencing, Video Mail, Distance Learning, Non-Real Time Multimedia Applications: World Wide Web, Multimedia Mail; Design of Networked Multimedia Applications; Transport layer multimedia: RTP protocol, RTCP protocol, SIP protocol; Quality of Service: Network layer support for multimedia, IntServ, DiffServ; Multimedia Multicasting; Multimedia programming, Future trends.