The networking industry is in a period of rapid change, brought about by the shift from host environments to distributed environments. TCP/IP is the networking protocol suite of choice by organizations, driven by the Internet which is TCP/IP based. An exciting new feature of TCP/IP is multicast IP using Class D addressing, which is rapidly becoming a standard within TCP/IP. Multicast IP support in networks opens up many new applications that can greatly benefit organizations.
Mr. C. Kenneth Miller’s talk will introduce IP Multicasting and then discuss the problems associated with the larger implementation of multicasting, as well as, solutions to them. Additionally, he will discuss different network infrastructures and their ability to support multicast.
Mr. Miller was the primary inventor of the StarBurst MFTP multicast file transfer protocol. He founded Concord Data Systems in early 1981 and served as its President and CEO until 1986. Concord Data Systems was a pioneer in high speed dial modems. He was the author of the IEEE 802.4 LAN standard, which became the lower layer for the MAP factory LAN standard. Mr. Miller was a regular columnist in Data Communications Magazine from 1992 to 1994 and has published numerous articles and has participated in many panels at trade show and other industry events.
Mr. Miller received the BEE degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the MSEE degree from the University of Pennsylvania specializing in communications.
Prepared by/ Contact: Don Rickerson, Vice Chair for Programs IEEE Communications Society, 202-651-3912