Multicasting is a network communication process where a message from a single user is received by multiple network endpoints. It can be used for urgent announcements, live video feeds, and audio broadcasts. Multicast is different from email and software addressing and is limited to users connected to the network. Multicast is ideal for text communications, […]
A multicast router identifies packets and determines routing or data distribution to forward them to their destination. It works alongside unicast routers in the Multicast Internet or Backbone, using masking to appear as unicast packets. Two protocols, dense mode and sparse mode routing, are used based on network conditions. Often referred to as a mrouter, […]
