Multicast is a mode of one-to-many communication, which can save businesses on the network bandwidth and reduce network load through point-to-multipoint efficient data transmission.
- Multicast: Cloud Platform supports multicast on the VPC dimension.
Overview
Multicast is mostly used in the financial and game industries:
- For the game industry, multicast is mainly used for heartbeat holding between multiple servers.
In the unicast mode, the initiating server sends data to N servers separately. In the multicast mode, the server sends the same data to N servers at once, which reduces the server resource consumption and also the bandwidth resource of the backbone network.
Enabling or Disabling Multicast
Enabling Multicast
- Log in to the VPC Console.
- In the list, locate the row of the VPC where you want to enable the Group Broadcast feature, click the button under Group Broadcast and confirm the operation.
Disabling Multicast
- Log in to the VPC Console.
- In the list, locate the row of the VPC where you want to disable the Group Broadcast feature, click the button under Group Broadcast and confirm the operation.
