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Unicast

Unicast

- [Instructor] In this video, we want to take a look at the first of three different IP, version four, communication flows. And I'm going to use the same topology to discuss each of these flows in this video and the two upcoming videos. In this video, we're specifically discussing Unicast. In your notes, you might right down that Unicast is one-to-one communication. And in the scenario, I've got a server. It's a video server. It's sending out some sort of a video stream. Maybe the CEO of the company has said that at 2PM I'm going to be making this company-wide announcement, please tune-in if you're not otherwise occupied. Now PC one and PC two, they want to hear what she has to say. But PC three, they're on a sales call, they're busy, they're not going to be tuning in. The goal is PC one and two, they want to receive the video stream. PC three does not want to receive the video stream. With Unicast, the communication…

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