Internet Group Management Protocol
Internet Group Management Protocol allows receivers to indicate their interest to join (or leave) an IPv4 multicast traffic distribution group. IGMP is typically used for IPTV live broadcast…
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Latency
Network definition: Latency describes the time required to transmit data or to communicate between two parties. In data networking, it corresponds to the one-way delay between two points…
Read articleLive Streaming Workflow
High level view of video streaming workflow for live content.
Read articleMulticast
A one-to-many network traffic distribution mechanism. Multicast stands in contrast to unicast (one-to-one) network traffic transactions. Broadcast (one-to-all) is the other traffic delivery scheme which is only used…
Read articleMulticast ABR
Technology which permits to multicast media objects that are common in HTTP-based streaming protocols. In one instantiation, it is composed of two components: one server to create a…
Read articlePrecision Time Protocol (PTP)
Precision Time Protocol (PTP) is a time standard. It enables other technologies, ex. the 2110 protocol, to keep accurate timing between audio, video, closed captioning and other metadata.…
Read articleQuick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC)
Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) is a UDP-based transport layer network protocol. HTTP/3 uses QUIC to achieve performance enhancements (e.g. simpler handshakes, multiplexing) such as lower latency media…
Read articleReal Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP)
Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) is a communication protocol for streaming audio, video, and data over the Internet. Originally developed as a proprietary protocol by Macromedia for streaming…
Read articleReliable Internet Stream Transport
An open-source, interoperable transport protocol designed for reliable, low-latency video contribution and distribution over the public internet
Read articleRound Trip Time
Measure of total time for network request (e.g. for a media object) to travel over the network and for response to travel back.
Read articleSecure Reliable Transport (SRT)
Secure Reliable Transport is an open-source video streaming protocol and technology used to transmit high-quality video and audio streams over unreliable or unpredictable networks, such as the public…
Read articleUser Datagram Protocol (UDP)
User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is one of the main transport protocols used in IP networks. It corresponds to Layer 4 in the OSI 7-layer model of the networking…
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