Multicast traffic % in enterprise network ?

Wed Aug 8 21:22:45 UTC 2018

On Wed, 8 Aug 2018, Mankamana Mishra (mankamis) via NANOG wrote:

>  *   If there is any data which can provide what % of traffic is 
> multicast traffic. And if multicast is removed, how much unicast traffic 
> it would add up?
>  *   Since this forum has people from deployment area, I would love to 
> know if there is real deployment problems or its pain to deploy 
> multicast.

> These questions is to work / discussion in IETF to see what is pain 
> points for multicast, and how can we simplify it.

The amount of multicast traffic on an enterprise network will depend 
greatly on how multicast is being used, and to some extent, the type of 
business the enterprise is in.

An enterprise that uses multicast primarily for IPTV distribution might 
have different business and technology drivers than, say, a hospital 
or healthcare organization that has patient monitors that use multicast 
to communicate back to a central monitoring station.  The percentage of 
multicast traffic in those two scenarios might be vastly different, but 
no less important to their respective organizations.

Thank you
jms