Chapter 13
Multicast Design
This chapter covers the following topics:
Multicast Switching: This section covers the multicast switching protocols and network design elements for them.
Multicast Routing: This section covers the multicast routing concepts and protocols, and the corresponding network design elements.
Multicast Design Consideration: This section highlights the multicast design considerations that network designs should be aware of.
The typical behavior of unicast traffic is to send a copy of each packet to each receiver in any given network segment. As a result, the more receivers in the network of any given application, such as streaming video, the more bandwidth consumed. The impact of this behavior in small networks is almost ...
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