What is application-level multicast?
Flash Media Enterprise Server supports application-level multicast, which uses a peer-to peer network to help deliver video over multiple different networks. Unlike IP multicast, application-level multicast does not require any network hardware changes and is useful to achieve maximum scale of high-quality video with limited network hardware or bandwidth impact. Application-level multicast can be used as a one-to-many broadcast or used to support multiway communication between one-to-one or few-to-few scenarios. Application multicast will significantly reduce bandwidth for both public and private network applications. Video players developed with the OSMF will have full support for application-level multicast.
