[38649] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Sat Jun 9 22:08:45 2001
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 19:09:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
To: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Cc: "Nanog@Merit. Edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
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verio and l3 are both multicast enabled... I don't know the extent to
which it's available as a customer...
joelja
On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Deepak Jain wrote:
>
>
> Don't know why I came across this, but I found a document on Sprintlink's
> site that says their entire backbone is multicast enabled, and they also
> peer with the MBONE for multicast traffic. They charge no fee for dedicated
> customers to be multicast-enabled.
>
> Are any other major networks doing this? Or have I been living under a rock
> and _everyone_ is doing this now?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Deepak Jain
> AiNET
>
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