multicasting
nounEtymology Blend of multiple + broadcasting.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Networking, Physical sciences, Sciences The simultaneous transmission of data to several destinations on a network.
- Unlike broadcasting, multicasting allows each host to choose whether it wants to accept multicast packets.2009, Robert Rümmler, Alexander Daniel Gluhak, Hamid Aghvami, Multicast in Third-Generation Mobile Networks: Services, Mechanisms and Performance, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 14:
- Related terms
- multicast