Network coding represents a paradigm shift in data transmission, whereby intermediate nodes within a network combine incoming data streams using algebraic operations before forwarding them. This ...

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 ...

Way back when I left the world of network engineering and became an analyst (circa 1999) my first assignment was to write a technology brief on the topic of IP multicast. At the time, IP multicast was ...

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 ...

At the rate the radio industry is going, within 10 years the most common connection on the back of a piece of audio equipment won’t be an analog or digital XLR but an Ethernet RJ-45. Multicast DHCP ...

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 ...

I've taken the liberty of decorating my room with a set of DMX controlled fixtures. The intention is to control the lights with an app on my phone through WiFi or through the interface of a computer.