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IP Multicast

The simultaneous transmission of identical data to many users by the use of special Internet Protocol multicasting features in order to avoid clogging data networks and servers. Instead of a single server communicating with many individual computers, a single server distributes content to many distributed routers that in turn distribute to many other routers and finally to many individual users.

Revised Thursday, 06-Sep-2001 10:56:44 CDT - © 2000 - 2003 LEC & CPB