MIAMI — Tune to NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations’ WTVJ-6 on a TV with a digital antenna affixed to it, and you’ll get NBC programming on the main over-the-air channel, and COZI TV on its DT-2 ...

The new name is part of a plan to position the network as an alternative to traditional sitcom-based multicast networks. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

BT Group is working with content delivery network (CDN) firm Broadpeak to launch a service for live video streaming that they say will be critical to coping with growing network demand and ...

As operators transition to all-IP they are looking at opportunities to conserve access network bandwidth. Multicast-assisted ABR (M-ABR) is a low cost and easy to deploy solution that allows operators ...

In 1953, Clos proposed a class of space-division three-stage switching networks and proved strictly non-blocking conditions of such networks. Liotopoulos and Chalasani gave more generalized ...

As data center managers consolidate and virtualize their servers, the next order of business becomes moving all that traffic. Enter top-of-rack data center switches that offer speed, scalability, ...

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 ...

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, ...

The vast majority of Internet streaming today uses unicast, the original Internet transport protocol, where a separate copy of the stream is sent to every listener or viewer in the audience. Since the ...

The multicast network is now available in 44 of the top-50 markets; expanding the network’s reach to 79% of the U.S. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Multicast switching isn’t the flashiest subject to talk about in a world rippling with high-speed technology developments, but it’s an important one that AV professionals would be remiss to overlook ...