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| | Internetworking |
 | | In addition, with the continuing decrease in hardware costs, very simple or special-purpose devices will soon have computing and communications capabilities of their own and enjoy Internetwork addressability traditionally assigned to mainframes, workstations, and more recently personal computers. |
 | | As a result, very simple devices will become reachedable through the Internet; furthermore, traditional computing, storage, and media-distribution resources will be implementable by aggregating such simpler devices (e.g., a traditional Internet host becomes a network of devices). |
 | | The first, called LMAS, is a generalization of internetwork multicasting. |
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