All things related to multicast

[(Kevin C. Almeroth)]

>I realize that the focus of wg-multicast has been on wide area delivery, but 
>we
>might as well be thinking about how to deliver multicast from our campus 
>CISCO
>routers to end-users.

Emphasis on "has been"...  we are now moving down the chain to deal
with issues raised by member institutions.  As an MI you should talk
to the folks in the Gigapop about how you can get multicast from
them...  There isn't just one choice.

>>If you are interested, you can view powerpoint presentation at:
>>
>>      http://www.dpo.uab.edu/~jgemmill/i2/SURAvide-3-99/sld001.htm

Couple of comments:

1.  There is no MBone in the backbone (slide 2).  The term MBone has
    lots of meanings and lots of people disagree.  We are deploying
    native multicast.
    
2.  Slide 14...  you might want to mention what would happen if
    people were doing lots of unicast on the link.  Multicast is 
    less expensive than unicast (ignoring some details of IGMP).

3.  You should mention that many of the hardware components needed
    are already available.

-Kevin

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