Networking - Define IP multicast

Define IP multicast.

- IP multicast technology reduces traffic by sending stream of information to many recipients at one go.
- Video conferencing, stock quotas are the examples based on IP multicast.
- It is a method of sending internet protocols (IP) datagrams to a group of receivers in a single transmission.
- It is mostly used for streaming media applications over the network.
- They specially use the reserved multicast address blocks in IPv4 and IPv6.
Networking - Describe how the multicast protocol works
Describe how the multicast protocol works - Multicast protocol or Internet protocol delivers a singles message to multiple machines. One packet from the source is replicated and sent to the destination.........
Networking - Describe how to control the scope of multicast transmissions
Describe how to control the scope of multicast transmissions - Controlling the scope of multicast transmission restricts the range of group members. TTL (Time To Live) is one of the mechanisms to limit the scope.........
Networking - Explain why use Multicasting
Explain why use Multicasting - When the same message or packet needs to be sent to multiple destinations, multicasting is used.........
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