Multicasting allows networked devices to send data to a group of machines without having to make multiple copies of that data. This allows for efficient communication between large numbers of devices, ...

I've taken the liberty of decorating my room with a set of DMX controlled fixtures. The intention is to control the lights with an app on my phone through WiFi or through the interface of a computer.

A one-to-many transmission of data over an IP network. It is used for myriad purposes including updating routers, announcing and discovering services and streaming media. IP multicast saves network ...

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 ...

The consolidation of the Internet Protocol as the foundation of most communications services has become indisputable. IP's simplicity, open standards development, relative low cost of deployment and, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In OSPF, with Broadcast Multiaccess Topologies (i.e. Ethernet), the Multicast IP addresses are mapped to MAC-level multicast addresses. I was unaware that there were multicast MAC addresses available ...