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DNLA/UPnP
Apologies, I'm no longer as technically literate as I used to be. I've no idea what that means.
The best way I can describe it is that it lets you access media files on a remote share efficiently.
If you streamed music from windows to your Xbox 360, it's using the protocol.
If you use Kodi, or Windows Media Player they both use it as well.
Plex I know exposes itself as a UPnP endpoint, so you can "browse" it from Kodi or another media player (that supports UPnP), as if it's on your device.
Its an open standard and slightly more commonly available than you might realize :)
I was being a bit facetious though. On an architectural level though, it can be reasoned it's different enough from Chromecast to not be a replacement.
DLNA/UPnP is a direct stream between two devices on your Local network.
Chromecast is more "hey little dongle, here's a URL, play it".
So media in the cloud wouldn't work with DLNA/UPnP