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multicast

Multicast

Delivery of information to interested systems - One-to-many-of-many - Used for 1. Multmedia Delivery 2. stock exchanges 3. dynamic routing updates 1. The routers are able to intellygently update othe router of the network
- Very specialized - Difficult to scale across large networks - Used both in - IPv4 address - extensive use in IPv6 address