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Unicast

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Unicast is data transmission from a single sender (red) to a single receiver (green). Other devices on the network (yellow) do not participate in the communication.

Routing schemes
Unicast
Broadcast
Multicast
Anycast

Incomputer networking, unicast is a one-to-one transmission from one point in the network to another point; that is, one sender and one receiver, each identified by a network address.^[1]

Unicast is in contrast to multicast and broadcast which are one-to-many transmissions.^[2]

Internet Protocol unicast delivery methods such as Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) are typically used.

References[edit]

^ Godred Fairhurst. "Unicast, Broadcast, and Multicast". Archived from the original on 2021-11-23. Retrieved 2021-11-23.^{[self-published source?]}

^ "Differences Between Multicast and Unicast". Microsoft. Archived from the original on 2008-02-03. Retrieved 2008-02-04.

External links[edit]

"What Is Unicast IPv4 Routing?". Microsoft. Retrieved 2010-09-30.

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