IP Multicasting : Limitations

Limitations generally related to its infancy

Although an increasing number of routers are multicast-capable, many older routers are still not capable of handling multicast subscriptions

In the meantime, multicast-aware routers communicate directly with each other, “tunneling” data past the routers that cannot handle multicast data

Multicast on a LAN : Still Broadcasting when it comes to the bandwidth use

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