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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

How can iPads and iPhones discover and use projectors, Apple TVs, printers and the like without flooding the enterprise Wi-Fi network with multicast discovery messages? Aruba Networks says it has a ...

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, ...

As viewers watch more streaming video content and cancel their cable/satellite subscriptions, broadcast stations have been doubling down on free ad supported over-the-air (OTA) television, a business ...

This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. "In recent years, IP multicast has become the accepted protocol for broad ...