Re: Multicast traffic % in enterprise network ?

[Greg Shepherd <gjshep () gmail com>]

On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 11:41 AM, Curtis, Bruce <bruce.curtis () ndsu edu>
wrote:

> Multicast was also required for earlier versions of VXLAN.  But later
> versions or VXLAN only require unicast.
>
> For the far future it seems like Named Data Neworking, Content Centric
> Networking, Information Centric Networking, Data Centric Networking etc all
> list multicast as a requirement or fundamental part of their architecture.


And they would all be better served by using BIER.

Greg


> > On Aug 8, 2018, at 4:15 PM, Greg Shepherd <gjshep () gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > Financial exchanges around the world use multicast.
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 1:31 PM, Stan Barber <sob () academ com> wrote:
> >
> > > As someone else remarked, part of this will depend on the type of
> network
> > > you are profiling. One enterprise networking may have critical internal
> > > applications that depend on multicast to work and others may have
> nothing
> > > but the basic requirements of the network itself (e.g. IPv6 uses
> multicast
> > > instead of broadcast for some network control information distribution).
> > >
> > > On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 11:49 AM, Mankamana Mishra (mankamis) via NANOG <
> > > nanog () nanog org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Every one,
> > > > Recently we had good discussion over multicast uses in public internet.
> > > > From discussion, it was pointed out uses of multicast is more with in
> > > > enterprise.  Wanted to understand how much % multicast traffic present
> in
> > > > network
> > > >
> > > >  *   If there is any data which can provide what % of traffic is
> > > > multicast traffic. And if multicast is removed, how much unicast
> traffic
> > > it
> > > > would add up?
> > > >  *   Since this forum has people from deployment area, I would love to
> > > > know if there is real deployment problems or its pain to deploy
> > > multicast.
> > > > These questions is to work / discussion in IETF to see what is pain
> > > points
> > > > for multicast, and how can we simplify it.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Mankamana
>
>
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