All things related to multicast

[Frank Fulchiero <>]

Alan, Thanks so much for the notes. Very appreciated.
You mean Rich was there and did not stream the meeting live with one  
of his new VBrick boxes!
;-)

Frank

On Oct 15, 2008, at 4:59 PM, Alan Crosswell wrote:

> Multicast WG BoF Wed Oct 15, 2008
>
> There were about 20 attendees.  Elaine has the list.
> Presentation slides will be posted to the I2MM web site once I  
> receive them.
>
> Items discussed follow:
>
> * High bandwidth multicast over WiFi
>   - no progress on getting any significant information from vendors  
> other
>     than the realization that there are a number of problems with
>     rate limiting, flooding, sending all multicast down tunnels to  
> APs, etc.
>   - See Bruce's mail regarding Cisco APs and roaming.
>
> * New Applications
>   - Philadelphia Orchestra global concert series
>     - They experienced significant technical issues with campus  
> multicast
>       - This did lead to several new campuses now able to do  
> interdomain
>   - "Move network" cache servers (unicast) beta w/Dave Devereaux-Weber
>   - Intercast multicast to storage for entertainment content being
> beta-tested
>     at a couple of member schools.
>   - Vbrick multicasting powerpoint.etc. to go along with the audio/ 
> video
>   - Inuk Networks - software player in demo room
>
> * Doing it without SAP
>   - Hitoshi referenced his
> draft-asaeda-mboned-session-announcement-req-00.txt
>     and ask that we support moving this draft from individual to  
> the group.
>   - Hitoshi & Kazuhiro Mishima presented a "channel-reflector" system
> this is
>     in activie development and solicited participation.
>     See http://demo.channel-reflector.net
>   - Tsuyoshi Hisamatsu briefly presented his latest DVTS follow-ons:
>     - DVRTP gldvshow DVTS client using OpenGL
>     - MPEG2-H.264 realtime transcoder
>
>    - Rich Mavroegeanes showed a Vbrick-developed SAP-replacement that
> uses RSS
>      and asked for interested people to contact him to provide input,
>      suggestions, possibly generate an I-D.
>      Includes an RSS listener for Sametime
>      Vbrick reflector is used for interdomain unicast, local multicast
>      Presentation viewer as mentioned above.
>
> * SSM
>   - Vbrick now supports SSM in their products (yay!)
>   - Apple still no SSM and no liklihood of this every being fixed.
>   - Silverlight doesn't support any multicast
>
> * Merit doing measurement & multicast monitoring using Zenoss
>
> * New Chair for the WG
>   Richard Machida has graciously agreed to take over as the Chair  
> of the WG
>   effective today.  Thanks, Richard, I'm off now to remove myself from
> Sympa:-)
>
> /a