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Re: Why don't we use multicast more often?


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  • From: John Zwiebel <>
  • To: Hugh LaMaster <>
  • Cc: Multicast WG Internet2 <>
  • Subject: Re: Why don't we use multicast more often?
  • Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 15:02:41 -0700


On May 13, 2004, at 2:41 PM, Hugh LaMaster wrote:

Moving on, those high-BW applications are -NOT- going to use
ASM.

Our high-BW applications *did* use ASM, and although
they didn't work with PIM-DM, they did work with PIM-SM/MSDP.



I know. I was there. :-)
My point would be that these high-BW sources are not
going to want to have to worry about receivers
joining to the shared-tree and then moving to the SPT
which is very difficult to debug and very prone to
breaking when compared to SSM.




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