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Re: multicast (was Re: Readiness for IPV6)
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell () ufp org>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 11:16:56 -0400
In a message written on Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 10:06:10AM -0500, Chris Parker wrote:
My own view is that customers don't want it, because end users don't have it. Dial up users will probably never get multicast.Yahoo/Broadcast.com pushed this pretty heavily. MS's own media player supports multicast, so there definitely a *lot* of clients out there.
There is a lot of client _SOFTWARE_ that supports it. There are very few clients on multicast enabled networks.
There are a list of providers supporting multicast in conjunction with Yahoo/Broadcast.com found at: http://www.broadcast.com/mcisp/ I see quite a few cable and dialup providers on there ( and I work for one of 'em... )
It's a cute list. Where's AT&T (with all the old @Home customers)? Where AOL? Don't see UUNet either. Almost as important, people like Sprint are on the list. Last I checked (admittedly, over a year ago) there was no multicast for Sprint DSL customers, and Sprint high speed customers had to specifically request it, it was not turned on by default. Result, less than 1% of Sprint's customers actually had it turned on, I believe. I'd be suprised if 1% of _residential end users_ were on multicast enabled networks today. Very surprised. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell () ufp org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request () tmbg org, www.tmbg.org
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- multicast (was Re: Readiness for IPV6) Jared Mauch (Jul 09)
- Re: multicast (was Re: Readiness for IPV6) Leo Bicknell (Jul 09)
- Re: multicast (was Re: Readiness for IPV6) Chris Parker (Jul 09)
- Re: multicast (was Re: Readiness for IPV6) Leo Bicknell (Jul 09)
- Re: multicast (was Re: Readiness for IPV6) John Kristoff (Jul 09)
- Re: multicast (was Re: Readiness for IPV6) Chris Parker (Jul 09)
- Re: multicast (was Re: Readiness for IPV6) David Charlap (Jul 09)
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