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, ...

Once upon a time, layer-2 unicast performance tests would have produced by far the most important results, but that’s changed. Measuring unicast throughput on all ports, once considered the acid test ...

If your business network uses a Linksys switch, the Internet Group Management Protocol snooping feature may be enabled. By default, the switch automatically forwards all IP multicast traffic to all ...

The impact of video data on an IT network is a common concern. Selecting the proper data transmission techniques can assist and play a major role in managing video on the network. Two data ...

The IEEE’s 802.1Q standard was developed to address the problem of how to break large networks into smaller parts so broadcast and multicast traffic wouldn’t grab more bandwidth than necessary. The ...

A growing number of enterprises today rely on video to share important information with employees and other stakeholders to access a wide variety of critical communications—from training and corporate ...

Multicast is a special type of network traffic where packets are delivered to a group of destinations as a single transmission. Used for advanced network services such as multimedia distribution, ...

Google turned up several results to either that multicast IP or that port, but none together.<BR><BR>In my OpenBSD pflog (which was just rotated after only 8 hours thanks to all these packets), I have ...

Several times over the years at Streaming Media I’ve been given free rein to indulge myself writing about my favorite of all topics in the streaming space: IP multicast. IP multicast offers ...

IP Multicast is a bandwidth-efficient method for broadcasting data, in particular streaming audio and video, across a network. In this primer we’ll discuss how IP Multicasts works, its pros and cons, ...