Comment by cluckindan
13 days ago
You use routers as the beefy servers. Unicast, multicast, broadcast.
Unfortunately that means the implementation needs to reach all the way into the network layer.
13 days ago
You use routers as the beefy servers. Unicast, multicast, broadcast.
Unfortunately that means the implementation needs to reach all the way into the network layer.
Multicast doesn't work on the global internet, and can't, due to problems of scalability and billing. It's sometimes possible to negotiate with specific ISPs to use multicast in specific ways on their network.