Efficient and intelligent use of bandwidth is paramount, particularly with the advent of video, mobility, and cloud technologies. It is also critical considering the surge in related one-to-many or many-to-many communication-based applications. Multicast helps to fulfill the requirement of such bandwidth-intensive applications with its inherent ability to replicate single stream when and where necessary. Applications across industries such as finance, enterprise, content-provider, entertainment, education, ISPs, and surveillance use multicast to optimize the profit-potential of resources with efficient and quality service offerings.