Deploying IP Multicast in the Enterprise - Softcover

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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.

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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