This arguement has just taken place on NANOG. Please check
http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg04392.html for the entire
thread.
Also, a list of multicast (interdomain) enabled backbones:
http://www.multicasttech.com/status/mbgp.sum
- Tim
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The real reason most Isp's don't do Large scale multicasting is that is
decreases the aggregate back bone until that they get $$$ for.
-----Original Message-----
From: Troy Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 12:07 PM
To: skunkworks talk
Subject: [skunkworks] RE: Streaming Media Conundrum
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 08:01:11PM +0900, "Thomas R. Charron"
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> Of course one of the obvious solutions to bandwidth issues is, if you're
> streaming live, to multicast. Of course, multicasting has been extremely
> expensive and difficult to implement in the past, but it's much easier now
It's actually cheap - a free service with many backbones - and not that hard
to configure. But not many network admins have bothered, since the
vast majority of multicast-enabled content has been academic conferences
with
small audiences.
Cheers,
Troy
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