Sending out
data to distributed
servers on the
MBone (Multicast Backbone). For large amounts of data, IP Multicast is more efficient than normal
Internet transmissions because the server can
broadcast a message to many recipients simultaneously. Unlike traditional Internet traffic that requires separate connections for each source-destination pair, IP Multicasting allows many recipients to share the same source. This means that just one set of
packets is transmitted for all the destinations.
