Re: IP Multicast

From: John Lyons (john@techvictim.net)
Date: Mon Jan 08 2007 - 07:33:10 ART


On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 07:58:32PM -0800, Elliott Reyes wrote:
> I'm on Chapter 5 going over IP Multicast and wondering why in the heck am I
> being tested on this subject. I've never had to deploy it other than with
> Ghost
>
> A few years back. Does anyone even use this protocol in the real world ?????

Yes, lots of people use it in the real world. Some examples are those deploying
IPTV, VoIP (On hold music), High bandwidth Videoconferencing (Not that I think this
is a good idea) and financial companies for stocks/shares information.

However, In general most of the above implementations will be closed wall,
ie. they won't involve Interdomain ASM.

John



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