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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Multicast Traffic on Backbones
Most multicast backbone providers have links that show that they mBGP with peers and offer MSDP as well. This allows for the customer on one providers network to access a source on another providers network. Of course there are issues with the 5 bit overlap in multicast address space, but it does work. There are commercial companies that have registered/reserved particular addresses for their applications as well. While I think that today the amount of multicast traffic is low, it will continue to increase. On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Deepak Jain wrote: > > 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. >
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