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The advantage is that you can turn up a customer the same day compared to having to schedule some maintence to make the network multicast enabled. Making all your bgp sessions do unicast+multicast is a trivial configuration change and does not cause any extra instability. Then you can turn on/off pim to the edge where the customer is attached as needed. - Jared On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 10:43:54PM -0400, Deepak Jain wrote: > > I think I should have been more clear. > > > When multicast enabling a network, am I wrong in assuming that the routers > will only multicast to their direct, end-user connections and peers (like an > access router will only offer streams to its direct connections)? I am > trying to figure out what advantages multicast-enabling a backbone has when > the majority of customers are not multicast-peers of their upstream routers. > > Thanks, > > Deepak Jain > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of > Jared Mauch > Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 10:33 PM > To: Joel Jaeggli > Cc: Deepak Jain; [email protected] Edu > Subject: Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones > > > > (almost) any verio customer can receive multicast. It is > available upon request. Let me know if you are a verio customer and > require assistance getting multicast. > > - Jared > > On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 07:09:01PM -0700, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > > > > -- > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Joel Jaeggli [email protected] > > Academic User Services [email protected] > > PGP Key Fingerprint: 1DE9 8FCA 51FB 4195 B42A 9C32 A30D 121E > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > It is clear that the arm of criticism cannot replace the criticism of > > arms. Karl Marx -- Introduction to the critique of Hegel's Philosophy of > > the right, 1843. > > > > -- > Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from [email protected] > clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine. -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from [email protected] clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.
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