Concept: Single Source, Multiple Destinations, Duplication only at branch points.
Present Day Support:
- Communication satellites.
- e-mail lists, internet news distribution.
Tomorrow's multimedia applications require:
- efficient use of bandwidth.
- near simultaneous delivery.
Applications: Multicast & Multi-point
One to Many
- Video Distribution
- Wide scale Information dissemination.
Many to Many
- Video Conferencing
- Computer Supported Common Work.
- Distributed interactive simulation.
- Large scale distributed (super)computing.
- Distributed Games
