An entity that appears on multiple customer lists from buying from more than one other person or company. This applies to the insurance industry as a policy type limiting the credit risk of selling goods to a myriad different buyers by export.
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MULTICAST BACKBONE (MBONE)
Internet sub-networks and routers in a virtual network specifically designed to carry heavy data traffic such as multimedia transmission for audio/video conferencing, as well as weather satellite images. Mbone allows simultaneous transmission to multiple addresses. Most internet traffic is unicast, one user connecting to one source at a time. Contrast to Unicasting.
MULTICASTING
A single device communicates with two or more devices with a single transmission in this transmission method. A multicast message is transmitted only to one or more selected devices. In contrast, broadcasting sends a message or signal to all connected devices at the same time. Refer to narrowcasting and unicasting.