Protocol-Independent Multicast: Difference between revisions

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* PIM Source Specific Multicast (PIM-SSM) builds trees that are rooted in just one source, offering a more secure and scalable model for a limited amount of applications (mostly broadcasting of content). In SSM, an IP datagram is transmitted by a source S to an SSM destination address G, and receivers can receive this datagram by subscribing to channel (S,G). See informational RFC 3569

Of the four, PIM-SM has the widest deployment.{{Citation needed}}

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