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A glossary of storage networking, data, and information management terminology. To learn more about the SNIA Dictionary click here.

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multicast

The simultaneous transmission of a message to multiple, but not all, of the ports connected to a communication facility.

In a Fibre Channel context, multi-cast specifically refers to the sending of a message to multiple N_Ports connected to a fabric.

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