In the 1970s, Internet Protocol (IP) was developed as part of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)/IP effort to provide logically addressed and structured networking. Since then, IP has matured ...

Networking is very complex, but anyone involved in embedded software needs to know something about it. Fortunately guys like Dan Schiro, who wrote the 2003 NewBits piece upon which this article is ...

We’ve heard a good deal about the amount of bandwidth that video demands from the network. IP multicasting is a method to reduce that demand. In some cases, it can be rather complex to implement.

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 ...

DO YOU KNOW the difference between IP broadcast and multicast? When is it appropriate to use multicasting for network video transmission? This month’s column is a quick tutorial on the basic methods ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...