Multicast Traffic on Backbones

Wed Jun 13 19:49:43 UTC 2001

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 at intermedia.com
> Manager, Tier III & Network Operations
> Intermedia Business Internet
> 24-hour Support 888-297-1400

T.M. Eubanks
Multicast Technologies, Inc
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Fairfax, Virginia 22030
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