The University of Bath is at least connected to JANET, but it is
probably that it just isn't going to the halls of accommodation. Us
student's clearly don't need something as fun as multicasted TV :(
Duncan
J.P.Knight wrote:
On Wed, 17 May 2006, Duncan Barclay wrote:
"This server is configured to support only multicast connections.
Please contact the content provider for more information on listening
to this broadcast."
It seems that JANET doesn't extend to the university accommodation,
although I don't see why it wouldn't.
The JANET multicast traffic might well make it to your campus network
core (assuming your regional MAN carries it - JANET connections don't
just terminate on X.25 or SMDS links to the Universities like they did
in the Good Old Days), but whether it then gets sent to the subnet
that you're on is something your networks folk get to decide. At
Loughborough for example we've shipped multicast to some subnets that
need it (for e-science and grid computing stuff mostly, plus some
video testing) but not all. Student hall rooms will probably be
getting multicast next for IP TV (but not the BBC's trial - this is
from INUK[1]). Even then its likely that we'll restrict where
multicast sources can come from and whether internal multicasting
within a hall works (so folk can't start up their own multicast TV
station playing out their video collection from their hard disc!).
Jim'll
1: <URL:http://www.inuknetworks.com/>
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