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In computer networking, multicast is a type of group communication where data transmission is addressed to a group of destination computers simultaneously. Multicast can be one-to-many or many-to-many distribution. Multicast differs from physical layer point-to-multipoint communication.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “multicast” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.