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, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. One minor inconvenience in writing about the worlds of video and data communications is the large ...

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 ...

With revenues from data-only services only showing modest growth, both DSL and cable modem developers must develop new service offerings. Clearly, the delivery of video services over their broadband ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. We’ve heard a good deal about the amount of bandwidth that video demands from the network. IP ...

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications clearly stated their intention to promote retransmission of terrestrial digital broadcasts via IP multicast in the second interim report compiled by ...

IP multicasting is an efficient way to deliver feeds, but it also poses a number of security risks. By Tobias Christen, senior vice-president, Stonesoft Corp. Using an IP network for the real-time ...

Google turned up several results to either that multicast IP or that port, but none together.<BR><BR>In my OpenBSD pflog (which was just rotated after only 8 hours thanks to all these packets), I have ...

In the related industries, many still feel uncertain about retransmission of digital terrestrial broadcasts via IP multicast, both from technical and systematical standpoints. Terrestrial broadcasts ...