multicasting

English

Etymology

Blend of multiple +‎ broadcasting.

Noun

multicasting (countable and uncountable, plural multicastings)

1. (networking) The simultaneous transmission of data to several destinations on a network.
   • 2009, Robert Rümmler, Alexander Daniel Gluhak, Hamid Aghvami, Multicast in Third-Generation Mobile Networks: Services, Mechanisms and Performance, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 14:

     Unlike broadcasting, multicasting allows each host to choose whether it wants to accept multicast packets.

Related terms

• multicast