In packet switching architectures, multicast transmission to two or more ports is inherent to the forwarding mechanics of certain protocols while strictly operational necessities in others. For ...

Going beyond traditional SNMP and CLI pollers, Multicast Explorer collects and analyzes all IGP routing announcements in real time using a passive technique as well as data collection methods ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The consolidation of the Internet Protocol as the foundation of most communications services has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...