Multicast Networking & Applications

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Summary: Useful, but not up to date - needs new edition!
Review: I bought this book hoping to gain insight into state of the art IP multicasting. While it does provide much detail on the spread of technologies and protocols available, and was a very useful reference text, I noticed that it didn't make mention of some of the more up to date developments and resolutions in this domain.
In short, worthy of a read for an introduction or recent history up to 2-3 years ago, but not much use to me in order to make critical decisions for my own multicast application project.

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Summary: Decent overview, but few details.
Review: This book is a comprehensive list of multicast technologies and vendors. If that's what you're looking for, it's decent. But if you are looking for an in-depth discussion of HOW these protocols work, this is not the book for you. For example, the discussion of multicast routing is cursory and confusing. And the part of the book on multimedia protocols feels like filler.

Rating:
Summary: Decent overview, but few details.
Review: This book is a comprehensive list of multicast technologies and vendors. If that's what you're looking for, it's decent. But if you are looking for an in-depth discussion of HOW these protocols work, this is not the book for you. For example, the discussion of multicast routing is cursory and confusing. And the part of the book on multimedia protocols feels like filler.

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Summary: Very current
Review: This is a very current up to date book on the going's on with IP multicast protocols. It is well written and organized well. By being up to date and in depth, it is a competitive offering.