multicasting

English

Etymology

Blend of multiple +‎ broadcasting

Noun

multicasting (countable and uncountable, plural multicastings)

  1. (networking) The simultaneous transmission of data to several destinations on a network.
    • 2009, Robert Rümmler, Alexander Daniel Gluhak, Hamid Aghvami, Multicast in Third-Generation Mobile Networks: Services, Mechanisms and Performance, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 14:
      Unlike broadcasting, multicasting allows each host to choose whether it wants to accept multicast packets.
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