Cell Relay Archive[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index][Thread Index][Author Index][Subject Index] Re: advantage of multicast?
In article <358A3184.65CF@netdelta.sogang.ac.kr>, kjyi@netdelta.sogang.ac.kr wrote: > > Hi, all > It's a stupid question. > I know that Multicast save bandwidth. > Do you know other advantages or more precise(graceful) explanation? > Thank you for your help in advance. Another real advantage of multicast is that it relieves the source from having to know exactly what destinations to send the message to. It's half-way between unicast (source knows all destinations) and broadcast (source knows no destinations, but everyone out there is interrupted with junk mail). Of course, when multicast is done via MARS and UNI 3.1, it is an _emulated_ multicast. So either the source or a separate multicast server will be told to what destinations to set up the pt-mpt VC. Bert manfredi@arl.bna.boeing.com -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/ Now offering spam-free web-based newsreading |
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