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CONFIDENTIAL
26-Jan-04
© 2002 Procket Networks, Inc. All rights reserved.
Multicast Uses
•Any Applications with multiple receivers
•1-to-many or many-to-many
•Live Video distribution
•Collaborative groupware
•Periodic Data Delivery - "Push" technology
•stock quotes, sports scores, magazines, newspapers
•advertisements
•Server/Web-site replication
•Reducing Network/Resource Overhead
•more efficient to establish multicast tree rather then multiple point-to-point links
•Resource Discovery
•Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS)
•wargames
•virtual reality
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