IP Multicasting

📖 The Scoop

IP multicasting is an emerging technology that gives you considerable cost and bandwidth savings - as it paves the way for the broadcasting of voice, video, and data over the Internet and corporate Intranets, without depleting network resources. IP Multicasting: Concepts and Applications goes far beyond an overview of what this technology is. It explains how it works inside real networks, reviews all the major products available today, and tells you what to look for when purchasing and upgrading network equipment and software. Ideal for systems managers, network administrators, systems integrators, Internet managers, and even Chief Information Officers implementing or planning to implement IP multicasting, IP Multicasting: Concepts and Application provides the technical foundation for understanding IP and broadcasting over IP networks; explains how IP multicasting works in a variety of environments, including frame relay, Layer 3 Switched, and satellite networks; and includes a complete resource directory, giving you one-stop access to reliable standards-based information, plus a comprehensive list of acronyms and a glossary.

Genre: Computers / Networking / General (fancy, right?)