The bitcontrol® Multicast Server is a software to stream the MPEG-2 video data of different
set top boxes as multicast over the local network. By this procedure the aquirement of additional
receivers and the laying of the required infrastructure (antenna cable) is avoided. The already
available network structure is used instead. By the multicast structure only the video streams
requested by the clients are transferred over every network section. The duplication of the
data packets and the decision where to send which packets is managed by the already available
switches in the network structure.
Requirements for the bitcontrol® Multicast Server are:
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