When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The consolidation of the Internet Protocol as the foundation of most communications services has ...

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, ...

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 ...

IP Multicast applications are emerging from the woodwork. The question is whether companies such as StarBurst Communications, with its data-only application, can crack Europe. The multicast concept - ...

Looking forward to a time when television is routinely delivered in Ultra-High Definition (UHD) or better, BBC R&D is investigating the distribution challenges this implies. The increasing scarcity of ...

A top-down exploration of networking using the 5-layer model and the TCP/IP stack. HTTP, FTP, DNS, BSD Sockets, concurrent servers, checksums, reliable transport with stop-and-wait, go-back-n, ...