Track 2 - Internet Routing and IP Network management (7-Oct-96)
Multicast
2) MBONE
B) History
- 1992 - Started as experimental service
Started with 40 subnets in 4 countries (1992)
- 1996 at 2900+ subnets
- moving toward a production service.
- most large Internet service providers support MBONE tunnels to some of their customers
- commerical routers staring slowly to supplant Unix boxes as MBONE routers
- availability of MBINE taken for granted at IETF meetings,
seminars, video conferencing
- Utilities and statistics from Merit and others
- Much left to do:
- More implementations and routers
- Security
- Scaling of address (*,G of PIM)
- Scaling of use of bandwith (RSVP)