[38778] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Wed Jun 13 15:50:17 2001
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Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 15:49:43 -0400
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@21rst-century.com>
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Christopher Johnston wrote:
> 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.
Glad to hear this !
Just for the record, you can see the full current list of participants in the multicast enabled Internet
at
http://www.multicasttech.com/status/mbgp.sum
This is updated dynamically serveral times per day.
Regards
Marshall Eubanks
>
>
> > 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
> >
> >
>
> ----
> Christopher Johnston - cjohnston@intermedia.com
> Manager, Tier III & Network Operations
> Intermedia Business Internet
> 24-hour Support 888-297-1400
T.M. Eubanks
Multicast Technologies, Inc
10301 Democracy Lane, Suite 410
Fairfax, Virginia 22030
Phone : 703-293-9624 Fax : 703-293-9609
e-mail : tme@multicasttech.com
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Test your network for multicast : http://www.multicasttech.com/mt/
Check the status of multicast in real time :
http://www.multicasttech.com/status/index.html
