Advantages of Multicast Over Unicast
filed in CCNA, Ehernet on Mar.09, 2009
A unicast packet has a single source IP address and a single destination IP address.A multicast packet has a single source IP, but it has a multicast destination IP address that will be delivered to a group of receivers.
In Multicast multiple hosts can receive the same multicast stream (instead of individual streams) to save bandwidth.
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