Answer to Question #219045 in Computer Networks for stan

Question

Using AIT (Lecturers, Students, Administrators and the President) as an example, explain Unicast, Broadcast, Multicast and Any cast transmissions. In addition, use well labelled diagrams to further depict your explanation.

Answer 1

Unicast is a single direct request sent from one host to another and only the hosts interact over the established route.

To broadcast is to transmit a packet that will be used by devices using the same network. While Multicast is a group where data transmission is addressed to a group of destination computers simultaneously.