Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones

[Jared Mauch <jared () puck Nether net>]

        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: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu]On Behalf Of
> Jared Mauch
> Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 10:33 PM
> To: Joel Jaeggli
> Cc: Deepak Jain; Nanog@Merit. 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
> >
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