When to Use Multicast vs. Unicast |
This article discusses when you should use Multicast vs. Unicast.
Who is your audience? Internet or intranet? If you are multicasting,
it gives you a very low consistent amount of bandwidth used, and
all points between the client and server must be enabled for multicast.
NOTE: All of the routers between the two must be multicast enabled, or
you can do UNIX tunneling to get around non-multicast enabled routers.
Overall, the Internet is not quite ready to support multicast traffic.
Therefore, multicasting is currently more suited for an intranet. It
does work well on a controlled intranet to reduce the amount of
bandwidth you use for NetShow streams.
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