anycast

anycast definition - telecom
In IPv6, a transmission mode in which a packet is delivered to the closest (in the sense of routing cost) interface with that address. See also anycast address, cost, interface, IPv6, and packet.

Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary Copyright © 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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