December 2020
Intermediate to advanced
736 pages
22h 40m
English
Multicast
Today we review the benefits of IP multicast, explore typical applications that use multicast, and examine multicast addresses. We look at different versions of Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and investigate basic Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) features. We also explore multicast traffic flow from sender to receiver.
IP multicast has fundamentally changed the way that we consume content. This bandwidth conservation technology reduces traffic and server loads by simultaneously delivering a single stream of information to thousands of users. Applications that take advantage of multicast ...