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ability to subscribe resources across TMR boundaries means that a profile can
be distributed easily to hundreds or thousands of machines.
2.6 Multiplexed distribution services
The multiplexed distribution facility (MDist) is a Framework service to enable
distributions of large amounts of data to multiple targets in an enterprise. These
services are used by a number of Tivoli profile-based applications to maximize
data throughput across large, complex networks. MDist is most important for the
Software Distribution component of IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager because
of the large file transfers. MDist is configurable to control network load.
MDist improves data throughput using such techniques ...