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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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unicast

The transmission of a message to a single receiver.

Unicast is contrasted with broadcast (sending a message to all receivers on a network) and multicast (sending a message to a select subset of receivers).

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