On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 11:27 Sean Donelan <s...@donelan.com> wrote: > On Wed, 1 Aug 2018, Aaron Gould wrote: > > As you all have said, to confirm, I use ssm Mcast to distribute TV from > > satellite down links in the headend, out to a few different remote head > > ends. From there it's converted back to RF video and sent to > > subscribers via cable or hfc plant > > I'm aware that multicast is used extensively for "closed enterprise" > networks in the financial and media industries. It seems to work well > when a single organization is paying for the entire network. > > My executive official came from that background, so I get why someone > from that world would think multicast is widely used. Asking enterprise > network sales people, they keep saying Yes, of course we support > multicast. > > That's why I wanted to hear from public Internet engineers if multicast > was still viable on the *public Internet*.
I'd say no - even though we have done inter-AS multicast before, it's only been with our direct peers.