Multicast

Word MULTICAST
Character 9
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Definitions and meanings of "Multicast"

What do we mean by multicast?

The simultaneous transmission of data to several destinations on a network.

The act of broadcasting/commentating/casting with other people. Urban Dictionary

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The word "multicast" in example sentences

This ability to make multiple copies of a packet is called multicast, and it occupies territory between broadcasts, which go to everyone, and regular communications called unicast, which go to only one recipient. [email protected] (Iljitsch Van (2011)

Netlink socket supports multicast, which is another benefit over system calls, ioctls and proc. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And more than half plan to use part of the digital spectrum to "multicast" additional programs and services at least part of the day. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The new service includes a "multicast" feature, which broadcasts trading data to servers and matching engines simultaneously. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It receives AM/FM and HD radio stations as well as sideband "multicast" channels. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For the core network provider, this suggests the need for increased capacity and more efficient use of capacity through mechanisms such as multicast and caching. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It allows you to "multicast" a packet to subscribers, and they call will be sent it, but each packet only travels once down any given internet pipe, even if there are several receivers waiting for it at the end of that pipe, or other pipes branched off that pipe. ❋ Anonymous (2010)

Thanks to the unwillingness of most ISPs to deploy technologies such as multicast, anycast and IP version 6 (IPv6), among numerous others, consumers are left with second rate solutions that fail to address their fundamental problems. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They will absolutely use the dispute in lobbying Congress and the Federal Communications Commission to force cable systems to carry their stations, particularly "multicast" services programmed in the capacity created by digital broadcasting. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Because most full-power stations are currently broadcasting both in digital and analog, viewers can plug in their converter boxes and generally receive a clearer picture and "multicast" channels, where they are available.

Objects/Network contains network objects that recodesent various standard address ranges and blocks, such as multicast, net 127/8, networks defined in RFC1918 and so on. ❋ Unknown (2009)

To send a single stream of data to many computers, networks have to "multicast," sending out multiple copies of a single input signal carried by an optical fiber. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Radio streaming would typically use some kind of multicast UDP protocal, eg RTSP / MMS, RTP etc, where as sharing music files is general TCP packets in a format particular to the method (eg Torrents, Gnutella etc). ❋ Unknown (2009)

I'm a little unsure what they mean by "multicast," but perhaps they mean a combo of a cable destination and an on-demand channel, like what they have created with PBS KIDS Sprout. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Called PBS KIDS Next Generation Media, the effort includes a new multi-platform destination for preschoolers and a "multicast" service for elementary school kids. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Broadcasters have already returned more than 100 megahertz of those airwaves to the government and plan to use the rest to transmit high-definition signals, "multicast" multiple channels and deliver mobile TV to phones, laptops and cars. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Canvas, and the ISPs behind Canvas will help enable multicast, which is enormously exciting. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"multicast" channels created when KMBH switched from analog to digital broadcasting, could be suspended before the end of the month if the two sides don't work something out. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For the world [series], with [John] and [Henry], we are going to multicast. ❋ BJHHW (2010)

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