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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

New dynamic network infrastructures built on IP multicast will allow network “service velocity” to dramatically increase. Service velocity is the time between when the need for a service is recognized ...

The Atlanta-headquartered networking firm swXtch.io is preparing for IBC2025 in Amsterdam by bringing to market a new on-prem networking product that applies the company’s cloud networking skills to ...

Once upon a time, layer-2 unicast performance tests would have produced by far the most important results, but that’s changed. Measuring unicast throughput on all ports, once considered the acid test ...

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 ...

The Reliable Internet Stream Transport (RIST) Forum has added IP Multicast Authentication to the RIST Main Profile Specification (VSF TR-06-2). The upcoming TR-06-2:2022 will have a mechanism to ...

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 DVB Steering Board, at its recent meeting in Geneva, approved the publication of two DVB BlueBooks related to adaptive streaming over IP multicast. BlueBook A176r3 is an update of the DVB-MABR ...

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 ...