North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Sorta OT: IP Multicasting
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Torsten Blum wrote: > > Yes, but how do I get those multicast packets to flow over my network? It > > seems the Mbone has dropped of the face of the net and everyone still > > doing multicast is doing it natively so if your transits aren't multicast > > capable you're out of luck. > You are a customer. Request it from your transit provider. If that still > doesnt work, take your money to someone who offers what you want. Sure, if I _really_ want multicast I can do that. But the thing is, I haven't actually used it, so how do I know if it's worth the trouble? > In many cases the lack of customer demand prevents deployment in ISP networks > ways too often IMHO. Even if there are engineers who want to deploy it the > lack of demand from paying customers makes it a low priority task if > something happens at all. It would help if there was some way for customers to experience multicast so they can see if this is something they want.
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