Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones

[Christopher Johnston <cjohnston () intermedia com>]

Intermedia Business Internet has been running multicast enabled for a couple
of years now. It is an unsupported service that is freely available to all
dedicated customers.


> 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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