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 ...

Multicasting (and broadcasting which is also discussed in this article) provides a means to direct a single packet to more than one host. Special addresses are defined for this purpose and are handled ...

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 ...

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 ...