So, regardless of which devices are in your smart home, and whether they're inherently smart or controlled by smart plugs and other gadgets, they all need reliable communication protocols to work ...

In the world of Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), you can send data packets to three different types of destination addresses: unicast, broadcast and multicast. The majority of Internet traffic ...

Networks running multicast protocols have IP addresses reserved for multicast transmission. Each of these IP addresses corresponds to a group of clients rather than a single device.

Multicast routing protocols such as distance vector multicast routing protocol (DVMRP), protocol independent multicast (PIM), multicast border gateway protocol (MBGP) enabled in multicast routers ...

IP Broadcast and Multicast Routing Certain protocols, such as telephony management, multimedia streaming, file sharing and printer protocols, were designed for small LANs and depend on ...

With video conferencing becoming extremely popular in wired and wireless network, efficient utilization of the network bandwidth is important to achieve Quality of Service (QOS). Internet Protocol (IP ...

The IPv6 Consortium of the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL) has tested multicast routing protocols between routers for the last ten years. As Senior Manager of IP ...

We are demoing a IP phone paging product (InformaCast) and I need to be able to route multicast traffic from our DCs to our remote sites. They are all connected with a AT&T L3 AVPN/MPLS. The Cisco ...

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 ...