Anycast addressing in IPv6 allows multiple servers to share the same IPv6 address. When a client sends a packet to this anycast address, the network infrastructure routes the packet to the nearest ...

New applications require conveying huge bitrate from a source node to one or multiple destinations, and, as a result, multicast and anycast connections need to be established on the optical layer.

This saves at least one packet round trip, which can be important for short lived exchanges. Examples of IP anycast routing services include routing IP multicast packets to shared multicast tree ...

At last, a small set of unicast addresses have been defined for special use. They do not carry a scope, so they are discussed independently of the other unicast addresses. Two basic addresses carry ...

IPv4 Multicast is a BGP address family (AFI 1, SAFI 2) that enables BGP to carry multicast routing information for IPv4 networks. It allows BGP to signal multicast reachability (Multicast RPF - ...