Many people take networks for granted, despite the significant roles they play in our daily lives. Networks rely on a few basic concepts, some of which include encapsulation, decapsulation and network ...

Wakefield, Mass.—The PICMG executive membership has approved two new protocol specifications, SFP.0 and SPF.1, that will allow applications using legacy transport protocols to be easily ported to ...

It won't be the star announcement of this week's Intel Developer Forum, but it's still noteworthy that Intel is trotting out hardware support for the Geneve encapsulation protocol. A blog entry on ...

Unlike NTSC VBI-based data services, DTV data services are an integral part of the broadcast signal. DTV data shares the same multiplex with the video and audio, and DTV uses the same fundamental MPEG ...

Before the globalization of wireless networks, most people in the world, who didn't have lines (cable or Ethernet) linked directly to the Internet, had to use telephone lines, the most widely used ...

Now that we have looked at video, video compression, and the basics of IP, we are ready to look at the process of creating IP packets out of a digital video stream. This chapter will begin by covering ...