John, multicast in the BBC network has been around for a few years, they were testing (IIRC) mostly Real audio streams a few years ago (december 2001 comes to my mind somehow).
As for who runs a multicast enabled network in CH, we (AS20932) have it enabled both for content from the Internet (peering at various locations with other multicast enabled networks) and for internal applications within our network (closed user group Live TV applications & co) Thomas PS: TIX doesn't support multicast over their fabric, I've asked for it a few times but there appears to be no interest, so currently CIXP is the only swiss IX that supports it ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Morgan Salomon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 2:42 PM Subject: Re: [swinog] BBC Multicast peering > Hi, > > sorry if it was unclear--I've mainly played with multicast in > 'closed' (i.e. corporate network) environments. > > I recall that there was some discussion a while ago about > some Swiss ISPs carrying multicast video traffic for an event > (FIFA 2002?) and was curious as to whether there are any plans to > let end-customers go about receiving BBC traffic now that it's > available. > > Cheers, > > -John > > > > > Paolo Moroni wrote: > > > On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Alexander Koch wrote: > > > >>On Thu, 19 August 2004 19:20:32 +0200, John Morgan Salomon wrote: > >> > >>>is anyone here planning on doing this? > >>>http://support.bbc.co.uk/multicast/peering/ > > > > If anyone is interested, the CIXP has a dedicated infrastructure > > for multicast traffic exchange (at no charge for CIXP members); some > > ISPs are alredy connected since a few months. > > > >>Besides all that I may not have understood your question > >>fully. > > > > I agree: perhaps I also misunderstood the initial question. Apologies > > if my answer was off topic. > > Paolo > > _______________________________________________ > > swinog mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.init7.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog > _______________________________________________ > swinog mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.init7.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.init7.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
