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Multicast Overview

The JUNOS software routing protocol process supports a wide variety of routing protocols. These routing protocols carry network information among routers not only for unicast traffic streams sent between one pair of clients and servers, but also for multicast traffic streams containing video, audio, or both, between a single server source and many client receivers. The routing protocols used for multicast differ in many key ways from unicast routing protocols.

This chapter discusses the following topics:


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