UDcast

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UDcast was a private telecommunications company founded in 2000 in Sophia Antipolis, France. It built equipment and software to run Internet Protocol (IP) over broadcast media, especially to deliver TV over satellite to mobile networks. The company worked with standards groups like ETSI and the Internet Engineering Task Force. It originated from INRIA researchers who helped develop Unidirectional Link Routing—the UD in UDcast stands for unidirectional, and the cast stands for broadcast. The routing method was published in 2001 as RFC 3077. Founders included Antoine Clerget, Patrick Cipière, Emmanuel Duros, and Luc Ottavj. Hubert Zimmermann was the CEO from 2003 to 2007.

UDcast sold wide-area network optimization devices designed for satellite networks and markets, with optimizations aimed at specific satellite environments. It used terms like DVB-H, DVB-SH, ATSC and WiMAX. On February 3, 2011, OneAccess Networks announced it had acquired UDcast.