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In telecommunications, unicast is the addressing of a message to a single recipient.
The term unicast is formed in analogy to the terms broadcast , multicast and anycast . It is addressing schemes of the network layer in the OSI model .
The term unicast does not allow any conclusions to be drawn as to whether it is a bidirectional connection, i.e. whether the sender and receiver are communicating with one another, or whether the respective data is only transmitted in one direction ( unidirectional ).
With IPv6 , certain areas are reserved for unicast addresses, which are specified by ICANN .
Unicast addresses are used here, among other things, for the temporary connection to IPv4 networks ( global unicast transition address ) or for the assignment of individual devices within closed networks ( link-local unicast address ).
See also
- Internet protocol family
- OSPF - routing protocol
- RIP - routing protocol
Web links
- Differences between multicast and unicast (Windows Media Services) . Microsoft. Retrieved February 4, 2008.
- What is unicast IPv4 routing? ( English ) Microsoft. Retrieved September 30, 2010.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Handbook Network Technologies: Complete Basic Knowledge of Networking and Internetworking, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-8272-6080-9 , chap. 32, page 571
- ↑ Anatol Badach and Erwin Hoffmann: Technology of IP networks, Munich 2015, ISBN 3-446-43976-5 , p. 349ff.
- ↑ IANA: IPv6 Unicast Address Assignments
- ↑ unicast