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Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 02:58:55 +0859 ()
Michael;
an option with customers. There isn't a demand, so the providers don't put the resources into it...That is the way our economy works...
The economy around best effort multicast is as follows ISPs want to get more money for additional service of multicast receivers pay nothing to receive the same service as unicast with the additional complexity senders are forced to support unicast service to attract enough number of receivers, even if they pay more for faster connection The story may be different for closed groups of senders and receivers but they are negligible. And, if receivers start using resource reserved communication at their own expense, they are motivated to use multicast to reduce communication cost. But, it will take time. Note that BGP is incapable of handling such situation. Masataka Ohta
Current thread:
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones, (continued)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones David Howe (Jun 15)
- RE: Multicast Traffic on Backbones David Schwartz (Jun 15)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Tim Winders (Jun 09)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Joshua Goodall (Jun 10)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Tim Winders (Jun 10)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Joshua Goodall (Jun 10)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Tim Winders (Jun 10)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Michael Whisenant (Jun 10)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Eric Gauthier (Jun 10)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Michael Whisenant (Jun 10)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Masataka Ohta (Jun 10)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Randy Bush (Jun 10)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Michael Whisenant (Jun 10)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Alex Bligh (Jun 10)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Randy Bush (Jun 10)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Joshua Goodall (Jun 10)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Tim Winders (Jun 10)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Austin Schutz (Jun 10)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Austin Schutz (Jun 11)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Fletcher E Kittredge (Jun 11)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Michael Whisenant (Jun 10)