Multicast

"Multicast" technology that conserves bandwidth by disseminating data to multiple recipients at the same time;

Background On Next Generation Internet Initiative ITY National Archives 1996

I could also "Multicast" my updates from TweetDeck as it supports both Twitter and FaceBook, but that would make my life even more complicated than it is now and would not address when I'm doing mobile updates or when Twitter is "Pulling" from my blogs.

ZDNet News - News Page One Jason Perlow 2010

I could also "Multicast" my updates from TweetDeck as it supports both Twitter and FaceBook, but that would make my life even more complicated than it is now and would not address when I'm doing mobile updates or when Twitter is "Pulling" from my blogs.

ZDNet News - News Page One 2010

Multicast/broadcast is really the only way to do a live streaming event to that big an audience over the soda-straw that is a mobile network with video.

MLB iPhone App to Live-Stream Games Over 3G; Still No Sling 2009

Recent grabs: Multicast Media, an Atlanta company that manages online video platforms for large corporations; Accela Communications, maker of marketing videos for health care and IT companies, in Boston; and Megahertz, an English company that builds broadcast trucks, high-definition broadcast studios and video servers.

Startup.com: The Sequel Christopher Steiner 2010

Multicast pushes the routing problem in to dedicated hardware across the network and means that information only needs to be sent to each network once, so if you have 2 people seeing the same things in the same physical house, each packet is only sent to the house once.

Does Bandwidth Buy Crowds? 2006

Multicast packets are addressed to a special group address.

Ars Technica iljitsch.vanbeijnum@arstechnica.com (Iljitsch van 2011

Multicast works well for a relatively limited number of streams that are each watched by a reasonably sized group of people-but having very many multicast groups takes up too much memory in routers and switches.

Ars Technica iljitsch.vanbeijnum@arstechnica.com (Iljitsch van 2011

Multicast is already used in some private IPTV networks, but it has never gained traction on the public Internet.

Ars Technica iljitsch.vanbeijnum@arstechnica.com (Iljitsch van 2011

Prestigious Global Trading Firm, located in the Chicago Loop, is currently seeking a Senior Network and VOIP Engineer with strong Cisco, Multicast, and performane issue management experience.

News - chicagotribune.com 2011