You are configuring an IPv6 network for a company that needs to send data from one server to multiple clients simultaneously, such as streaming stock market data to various terminals across the network. To ensure efficient delivery without unnecessary network traffic duplication, which IPv6 address type should be used?
In this scenario, multicast addresses should be used. IPv6 multicast addresses allow a single packet to be delivered to multiple interfaces identified by the multicast address, enabling efficient one-to-many communication without duplicating traffic for each recipient. This conserves bandwidth and reduces network load. Unicast addresses are used for one-to-one communication, anycast addresses deliver packets to the nearest of multiple interfaces (one-to-nearest), and link-local addresses are used for communication within the same network segment and do not support efficient one-to-many distribution.
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