[38777] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Johnston)
Wed Jun 13 15:33:36 2001
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 15:33:10 -0400
From: Christopher Johnston <cjohnston@intermedia.com>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106091906290.7223-100000@twin.uoregon.edu>; from joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu on Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 07:09:01PM -0700
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Intermedia Business Internet has been running multicast enabled for a couple
of years now. It is an unsupported service that is freely available to all
dedicated customers.
> 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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Intermedia Business Internet
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