Ron da Silva wrote:
Jared,
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 01:45:53PM -0500, Jared Mauch wrote:
Verio, Sprint, Qwest, Digex/Intermedia, AboveNet/MFN and GlobalCenter all have multicast enabled networks and offer multicast services to customers last I knew. I don't speak for any of them so my information may be out of date...
Is the interesting receiver population the operators of these major backbones and those of their (smaller?) customer networks? Regardless, are the receivers that Deen desires to reach multicast enabled or not? Who do you want to reach with this application?
-ron
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ron da Silva ron@aol.net Network Architect 703.265.4548 America Online, Inc.
From the sound of it, he wants to reach an academic audience, which has a much higher chance of being multicast enabled.
FWIW, there are 321 autonomous systems on my current list of the multicast enabled. Regards Marshall Eubanks Multicast Technologies, Inc. 10301 Democracy Lane, Suite 201 Fairfax, Virginia 22030 Phone : 703-293-9624 Fax : 703-293-9609 e-mail : tme@on-the-i.com http://www.on-the-i.com