IP Multicasting

Tue Jan 2 19:55:20 UTC 2001

Ron da Silva wrote:
> 
> Jared,
> 
> On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 01:45:53PM -0500, Jared Mauch wrote:
> 
> >       Verio, Sprint, Qwest, Digex/Intermedia, AboveNet/MFN and
> > GlobalCenter all have multicast enabled networks and offer multicast
> > services to customers last I knew.  I don't speak for any of them
> > so my information may be out of date...
> 
> Is the interesting receiver population the operators of these major
> backbones and those of their (smaller?) customer networks?  Regardless,
> are the receivers that Deen desires to reach multicast enabled or not?
> Who do you want to reach with this application?
> 
> -ron
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Ron da Silva               ron at aol.net
> Network Architect         703.265.4548
> America Online, Inc.

>From the sound of it, he wants to reach an academic audience,
which has a much higher chance of being multicast enabled.

FWIW, there are 321 autonomous systems on my current list of the
multicast enabled.

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