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What is Multicast Router

Chapter 35
Encyclopedia of Internet Technologies and Applications
An IP router, which supports IP multicasting. Multicast routers forward IP packets (both unicast and multicast) and provide necessary replication of multicast packets to a set of destinations. To route multicast traffic, additional multicast routing table, separate from the unicast one, is used.
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IP Multicasting
Robert R. Chodorek (The AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 7
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-993-9.ch035
Abstract
The origins of IP multicasting go back to 1986. However, multicasting in its current form was introduced only in 1989. During 20 years of IP multicasting, the service has been evolving continuously – new multicast transport protocols have been designed, new group management protocols have been developed and new transport protocols and multicast applications have appeared. Nowadays, IP multicast is a mature solution, and concepts and protocols designed for multicasting are also used in non-multicast services.
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