Multicast Traffic on Backbones

Sun Jun 10 02:09:01 UTC 2001

verio and l3 are both multicast enabled... I don't know the extent to
which it's available as a customer...

joelja

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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