[38690] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Ross)
Sun Jun 10 19:38:44 2001
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 18:38:12 -0500 (EST)
From: Brandon Ross <bross@netrail.net>
To: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Cc: "Nanog@Merit. Edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
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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?
I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader of whether or not NetRail
qualifies as a 'major network', but we do run native multicast across our
entire backbone and it is available to all customers.
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Brandon Ross 404-522-5400
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