Advantages of a multipoint connection over a point-to-point connection?

We fellows ask a question to our teacher What are the advantages of a Multipoint connection over a point-to-point connection and he replied to us.

Point-to-point connection is limited to two devices, where else more than two devices share a single link in multipoint connection.

Multipoint connection can be used for fail-over and reliability.

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