All things related to multicast

[Bill Owens <>]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 06:01:25AM -0700, Russ Hobby wrote:
> Their particular use of multicast relies on multiple multicast connections 
> and for them to be set up in a timely fashion.  It is the setup time for a 
> connection with which they have been having trouble.  Connections can take 
> up to several minutes to be established.  

That sounds very odd - do you have more details?

In answer to your overall question, multicast is definitely a service for 
NYSERNet and for several of our campuses. We have external facing things 
(events that they stream over multicast for remote viewers) and internal 
(cable TV replacement), and in general they work very well. Specific problems 
are usually related to network changes that have unintended side effects, or 
underlying network issues like bad hardware or port autoconfiguration 
problems.

Bill.