Deploying IP Multicast in the Enterprise - Softcover

Maufer, Thomas

9780138976873: Deploying IP Multicast in the Enterprise

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0138976872 ISBN 13: 9780138976873

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1998

IP Multicast is the underlying technology which will make all "push" applications possible on the web. This is a guide for network managers on how to deploy IP multicast technology in medium to large size companies. A major portion of the book will be devoted to multicast routing protocols. Will cover latest developments of the IP Multicast Initiative started in December 1996. Author is Technical Strategist at 3COM and active in Internet Engineering Task Force activities regarding the IP Multicast standard.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

From the Back Cover:

89768-6

IP Multicast: Get ready for the future of Enterprise broadcasting!

With multicasting, it's possible to send data, video, and audio to many requesting clients simultaneously, across the Internet or any other IP-based network. Multicasting is an essential building block for a new generation of applications, such as leading-edge "push" applications (including news and sports updates, real-time stock quotes, and others),software distribution, and certain multimedia applications.

In this book, Thomas A. Maufer-co-author of the "Introduction to IP Multicast Routing" Request for Comments (RFC)-closely examines the protocols which make multicasting possible - and the challenging routing issues that arise in enterprise Multicasting. Maufer explains the rationale for multicast, describes important classes of multicast-enabled applications, and the essentials of multicast IP technology, including the "host group" model and the Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP).

Ensure successful deployment of a multicast infrastructure over your existing networks by understanding how multicast routing protocols work.Protocols such as the Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol, Multicast Extensions to OSPF, Protocol-Independent Multicast - Dense Mode are discussed, along with the exciting new Protocol-Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode, and Core Based Trees protocols.

Multicast-based transport protocols are discussed, including the Realtime Transport Protocol (RTP), and so-called "reliable" multicast transport protocols are examined. Finally, watch IP Multicast at work in two leading-edge deployments: Networld+Interop's InteropNet, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Understand IP Multicast now -- and deploy it tomorrow.

Practical deployment considerations for enterprise intranets
Current and future intranet multicast routing protocols
Current and emerging applications: Conferencing, whiteboards, news updates, live or pre-recorded media streaming events, software distribution, reliable multicast transport protocols, the Service Location Protocol, etc.
Multicast routing interoperability frameworks, "reliable" multicast transport protocols, the Realtime Transport Protocol, and more
The history and possible future evolution of the Internet's Mbone
For all network engineers and managers developing multicast-enabled applications for use on the Internet or intranet

About the Author:

THOMAS A. MAUFER is now a software consulting engineer with 3Com Corporation in Santa Clara, CA. Previously, at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, he researched free-space electro-optical communications and served as senior network engineer. Since 1994, he has been a Networld+Interop Network Operations Center Team member, and participated in IETF work on e-mail, directory standards, IP routing protocols, IP security, IPng/IPv6, multimedia over IP, and IP Multicast. He co-authored the Introduction to IP Multicast Routing RFC. Maufer holds an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Vermont in Burlington, VT.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.