December 17, 1996 1:45 PM ET
IP Multicast Initiative to hold conference on bandwidth protocols
By Maria Seminerio

The IP Multicast Initiative, a standards body formed in October to address bandwidth concerns, will host a one-day conference next month to hash out protocols for conserving bandwidth on the Internet and corporate intranets. The IP Multicast Summit, to be held Jan. 16 in Santa Clara, Calif., will be hosted by Internet products vendor Stardust Technologies Inc. along with more than two dozen IT companies, including Cisco Systems Inc., IBM, Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp., Netscape Communications Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. The conference will feature educational seminars for vendors on enterprise deployment of the IP Multicast protocol and an overview of the goals of the IP Multicast Initiative, along with a keynote address from 3Com Corp. Chief Technology Officer John Hart. Vendors wishing to sign up for the event can do so online at www.stardust.com/ipmulticast/events/summit.html/. The registration fee is $95. Copyright(c) 1996 Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of Ziff-Davis Publishing Company is prohibited. PC Week and the PC Week logo are trademarks of Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. PC Week Online and the PC Week Online logo are trademarks of Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. Send mail to PC Week