Big Guys Team Up Little Guys To Fight Each Other Over Multicasting’s Future

NETWORKS & INFRASTRUCTURE

SAN FRANCISCO--Cisco Systems and Tibco Software, and Nortel and Talarian announced last week that they are moving to bring reliable multicasting closer to reality in distributed data networks.

In separate announcements, the four companies disclosed their potentially conflicting plans at the Mcast 2000 multicasting conference in this city.

This could turn multicasting into a battle that could slow development of a single standard or lead to conflicting standards; the fight could confuse the

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