As data center managers consolidate and virtualize their servers, the next order of business becomes moving all that traffic. Enter top-of-rack data center switches that offer speed, scalability, ...

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 ...

For the initial announcement of its Multicast-Assisted Unicast Delivery (MAUD) technology at the end of 2023, BT Group has now revealed it is using technology from Broadpeak. MAUD features Broadpeak’s ...

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, ...

BT Group is working with content delivery network (CDN) firm Broadpeak to launch a service for live video streaming that they say will be critical to coping with growing network demand 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 ...

Because many data center applications today make use of IP multicast, scalability is naturally a concern. For layer-2 switched environments, the main measure of IP multicast scalability is group ...