netwyman

The  cast  term here signifies some data(stream of packets) is being transmitted to the recipient(s) from client(s) side over the communication channel that help them to communicate. Let’s see some of the “cast” concepts that are prevailing in the computer networks field. 1. Unicast: This type of information transfer is useful when there is a participation of single sender and single recipient. So, in short you can term it as a one-to-one transmission. For example, a device having IP address 10.1.2.0 in a network wants to send the traffic stream(data packets) to the device with IP address 20.12.4.2 in the other network,then unicast comes into picture. This is the most common form of data transfer over the networks. 2. Broadcast: Broadcasting transfer (one-to-all) techniques can be classified into two types : Limited Broadcasting: Suppose you have to send stream of packets to all the devices over the network that you reside, this broadcasting comes handy. For this ...