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, ...

Multicasting (and broadcasting which is also discussed in this article) provides a means to direct a single packet to more than one host. Special addresses are defined for this purpose and are handled ...

One minor inconvenience in writing about the worlds of video and data communications is the large amount of overlap between terminologies. Network means something completely different to a television ...

There is quite rightly much focus on what can be done to help make streaming more sustainable. However, if we wait for a spectacular solution that solves everything and reduces emissions to almost ...

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 - ...

The Reliable Internet Stream Transport (RIST) Forum has added support for IP Multicast authentication to its main specification. The upcoming TR‑06‑2:2022 includes a mechanism to authenticate a ...

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 ...