In a multicast network, sources and receivers register with their local rendezvous points to announce sessions and enable receivers to find content. Large multicast networks typically have several ...

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 ...

HUNT VALLEY, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Sinclair Broadcast Group, a subsidiary of Sinclair Inc., a diversified media company and a leading provider of local news and sports, today announced network ...

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 ...

In a deal that makes its multicast networks easier to find over-the-air in major markets, Sinclair has agreed to pay Disney’s ABC Owned Television Stations to carry its Charge! network on its eight ...

(RTTNews) - Sinclair, Inc. (SBGI), Wednesday announced that it has renewed and expanded its broadcast agreements with Nexstar, increasing the reach of its free multicast networks—CHARGE!, Comet, TBD, ...

Weigel has expanded its distribution agreement with Dish to include multicast networks like MeTV on the satellite platform.

When Netflix streamed the Paul/Tyson fight to a record-breaking 65 million simultaneous viewers, it wasn’t all smooth sailing. Many viewers were left frustrated by buffering, freezes, and audio-sync ...