[9743] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
ATM vs. MBONE (not) (was: Re: T3plus Press Release on IBM purchased equipment for ANS)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Scudder)
Wed Jan 19 07:07:28 1994
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 94 02:18:02 -0500
From: "John Scudder" <jgs@merit.edu>
To: merit.com-priv@merit.edu
In article <9401181548.AA28918@avalle.insoft.com> francis@avalle.insoft.com (John [Francis] Stracke) writes:
[...]
>Is this going to impact the MBONE & other multicasters? As I
No.
>understand it, ATM doesn't support multicast. No?
[...]
It's pretty much orthogonal to the MBONE. Copper wire doesn't "support
multicast" either, but that doesn't seem to have been a big problem.
Regards,
--John Scudder
