UDcast was involved in international standards organisations such as
ETSI and the
Internet Engineering Task Force. UDcast was founded in June 2000 by members of the
INRIA research center who had helped develop Unidirectional Link Routing (the
UD stands for unidirectional, and the
cast for broadcast). The mechanism was published in 2001 as number 3077 in the
Request for Comments series. From at least 2003 through 2007,
Hubert Zimmermann served as chief executive officer. UDcast marketed
wide-area network optimization appliances optimized for satellite infrastructures, with optimizations targeted at some specific satellite markets. They used acronyms such as
DVB-H,
DVB-SH,
ATSC and
WiMAX. On 3 February 2011 OneAccess Networks announced they completed the acquisition of UDCast. ==References==