METHOD, APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND ARTICLE OF MANUFACTURE FOR RELIABLE LOW-BANDWIDTH INFORMATION DELIVERY ACROSS MIXED-MODE UNICAST AND MULTICAST NETWORKS

摘要

A system and method are provided wherein information is disseminated using areliable IP multicast network implementationcoupled with dynamically assigned proxy nodes serving as zonal aggregationpoints. These nodes share informationwith each other over the reliable IP multicast network, augmenting thisfunction with a reliable point-to-point communicationinfrastructure between proxy nodes in those instances where IP multicast isnot available or prone to error.