The use of IP for audio and broadcast transport applications has gained increasing attention as the quality of service (QoS) of packet switched networks continually improves. The lure of reduced costs ...

Multicast, a technique commonly used in networking systems, allows a given processing unit to send a single data stream to multiple destinations at the same time efficiently. Typically, the switch ...

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 ...