Sunday, November 5, 2023

Unicast Cluster vs Multicast Cluster

Unicast:

  • It sends data from one source to single target device.i.e one to to mapping
  • It follows Single Node Topology, so Network traffic is high.
    • Eg: Web surfing, file transfer 
  • IP address of same sub-net is used for identifying server/s
  • Except IP address, no other network configuration is required. If IP Address changed due to some reason, you need to add new IP address manually.

Multicast:

  • It sends data from one device to multiple devices.i.e one to many mapping
  • It works on star, mesh, tree and hybrid topology, so Network traffic is low.
    • Eg: Video Streaming, Online gaming 
  • Nodes are automatically detect each other and those are dynamically join the cluster when the node is started
  • The server status doesn’t need to be Running to configure it as a node in a cluster.
  • we can add nodes to the cluster dynamically without restarting the cluster.



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