All things related to multicast

[Leonard Giuliano <>]

On Thu, 20 Dec 2012, Mark Boolootian wrote:

-) > It used to work so well...
-) 
-) Not so sure of that, but it does feel like multicast has seen better
-) times.  I think back to the Marshall et al talk at NANOG following
-) 9/11:
-) 
-)   
http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog23/abstracts.php?pt=OTUxJm5hbm9nMjM=&nm=nanog23

Keep in mind, Marshall's presentation described multicast's greatest 
success with an audience of 830 simultaneous viewers.  By contrast, AT&T 
announced at IETF in Vancouver earlier this year that they had 10s of 
thousands of simultaneous viewers during one of their earliest mcast/AMT 
events (Eurovision 2012):

http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/84/slides/slides-84-mboned-0.pptx