Multicast Traffic on Backbones

Wed Jun 13 19:33:10 UTC 2001

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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