Internet protocol (IP) multicast technology has matured quite a bit since it was first deployed in the late 1990s. Multicast-enabled applications such as webinars, video/audio conferences, Internet ...

The foundations of today’s streaming industry were largely laid by multicast engineers in the early and mid-1990s. For example, the Real Time Transport Protocol (RTP) and the Session Description ...

Multicast, a technique commonly used in networking systems, allows a given processing unit to send a single data stream to multiple destinations at the same time efficiently. Typically, the switch ...

IP Multicast is a bandwidth-efficient method for broadcasting data, in particular streaming audio and video, across a network. In this primer we’ll discuss how IP Multicasts works, its pros and cons, ...

In a multicast network, sources and receivers register with their local rendezvous points to announce sessions and enable receivers to find content. Large multicast networks typically have several ...

Several times over the years at Streaming Media I’ve been given free rein to indulge myself writing about my favorite of all topics in the streaming space: IP multicast. IP multicast offers ...

Avaya is the latest networking player to throw its submission into the growing ring of fabric networking solutions debuting this week. See also: Dell intros new SDN fabric for data economics, ...

Globally respected for its satellite, cable and terrestrial delivery standards, the DVB has now focused its consensus based development powers on a standard for delivering UHD content services over IP ...

With video conferencing becoming extremely popular in wired and wireless network, efficient utilization of the network bandwidth is important to achieve Quality of Service (QOS). Internet Protocol (IP ...

The use of IP for audio and broadcast transport applications has gained increasing attention as the quality of service (QoS) of packet switched networks continually improves. The lure of reduced costs ...

Peter Williams recalls how the advent of IP multicast technology changed the face of market data distribution around the start of the new millennium. During that time, Williams held a series of market ...