[33197] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP Multicasting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Tue Jan 2 14:54:54 2001
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Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 14:55:20 -0500
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@21rst-century.com>
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To: Ron da Silva <ron@aol.net>
Cc: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>, nanog@merit.edu
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Ron da Silva wrote:
>
> Jared,
>
> On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 01:45:53PM -0500, Jared Mauch wrote:
>
> > Verio, Sprint, Qwest, Digex/Intermedia, AboveNet/MFN and
> > GlobalCenter all have multicast enabled networks and offer multicast
> > services to customers last I knew. I don't speak for any of them
> > so my information may be out of date...
>
> Is the interesting receiver population the operators of these major
> backbones and those of their (smaller?) customer networks? Regardless,
> are the receivers that Deen desires to reach multicast enabled or not?
> Who do you want to reach with this application?
>
> -ron
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Ron da Silva ron@aol.net
> Network Architect 703.265.4548
> America Online, Inc.
From the sound of it, he wants to reach an academic audience,
which has a much higher chance of being multicast enabled.
FWIW, there are 321 autonomous systems on my current list of the
multicast enabled.
Regards
Marshall Eubanks
Multicast Technologies, Inc.
10301 Democracy Lane, Suite 201
Fairfax, Virginia 22030
Phone : 703-293-9624 Fax : 703-293-9609
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