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broadcast - technical definition
A transmission mode in which a station sends a message to all stations on a network.A bridge or switch, for example, might broadcast a ping to all stations in order to update its routing tables. An authorized user of a voice mail system might broadcast a message to all stations to advise users of scheduled downtime for system maintenance. See also anycast, unicast and multicast.
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