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Internet Multicasting
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ALSO CALLED: MBONE, Multicasting, and IP Multicasting
DEFINITION: The MBone, now sometimes called the Multicast Internet, is an arranged use of a portion of the Internet for Internet Protocol (IP) multicasting (sending files - usually audio and video streams - to multiple users at the same time somewhat as radio and TV programs are broadcast
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INTERNET MULTICASTING DEFINITION (continued): … over airwaves). Although most Internet traffic is unicast (one user requesting files from one source at another Internet address), the Internet's IP protocol also supports multicasting, the transmission of data packets intended for multiple addresses. Since most IP servers on the Internet do not currently support the multicasting part of the protocol, the MBone was set up to form a network within the Internet that could transmit multicasts. The MBone was set up in 1994 … Internet Multicasting definition sponsored by SearchNetworking.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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