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Introduction to

Data Multicasting

Lawrence Harte

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About the Author

Mr. Harte is the president of Althos, an expert information provider

which researches, trains, and publishes on technology and business

industries. He has over 29 years of technology analysis, development,

implementation, and business management experience. Mr. Harte

has worked for leading companies including Ericsson/General

Electric, Audiovox/Toshiba and Westinghouse and has consulted for

hundreds of other companies. Mr. Harte continually researches, ana-

lyzes, and tests new communication technologies, applications, and

services. He has authored over 100 books on telecommunications technologies and

business systems covering topics such as mobile telephone systems, data communi-

cations, voice over data networks, broadband, prepaid services, billing systems,

sales, and Internet marketing. Mr. Harte holds many degrees and certificates

including an Executive MBA from Wake Forest University (1995) and a BSET from

the University of the State of New York, (1990).

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Introduction to Data Multicasting

Table of Contents

DATA MULTICASTING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

MULTICAST APPLICATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

C ONTENT D ISTRIBUTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

S HARED A PPLICATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

I NFORMATION D ISTRIBUTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

N ETWORK C ONFIGURATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

MULTIPOINT DISTRIBUTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

U NICASTING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

B ROADCASTING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

A NYCASTING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

M ULTICASTING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

DATA ROUTING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

I NTERNET P ROTOCOL V ERSION 4 (IP V 4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

I NTERNET P ROTOCOL V ERSION 6 (IP V 6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

D ISTANCE V ECTOR R OUTING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

L INK S TATE R OUTING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

MULTICAST OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

M ULTICAST S ESSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

S PARSE M ODE M ULTICASTING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

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