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, ...

Streaming video over the broadband Internet and IP networks can be costly in terms of bandwidth and networking resources. IP multicasting, based on the IGMP protocol, is designed to make video ...

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 ...