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What (who) is unicast - definition

SENDING A MESSAGE TO ONE COMPUTER; ON A ONE-TO-ONE BASIS
Unicast routing protocol; Unicasting; Unicast address; Unicast network address

unicast         
<networking> Sending packets to a single destination, used in contrast to broadcast or multicast. The term is generally only used when talking about low level communications, typically at the network layer, e.g. Internet Protocol. (2008-06-23)
Unicast         
[is data transmission from a single sender (red) to a single receiver (green). Other devices on the network (yellow) do not participate in the communication.
Broadcast, unknown-unicast and multicast traffic         
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COMPUTER NETWORKING CONCEPT
Draft:Broadcast, Unknown-Unicast and Multicast traffic; Broadcast, Unknown-Unicast and Multicast traffic; BUM traffic
Broadcast, unknown-unicast and multicast traffic (BUM traffic) is network traffic transmitted using one of three methods of sending data link layer network traffic to a destination of which the sender does not know the network address. This is achieved by sending the network traffic to multiple destinations on an Ethernet network.

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Unicast

In computer networking, unicast is a one-to-one transmission from one point in the network to another point; that is, one sender and one receiver, each identified by a network address.

Unicast is in contrast to multicast and broadcast which are one-to-many transmissions.

Internet Protocol unicast delivery methods such as Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) are typically used.