Track 2 - Internet Routing and IP Network management (7-Oct-96)

Multicast

2) MBONE

B) History

  1. 1992 - Started as experimental service

    Started with 40 subnets in 4 countries (1992)

  2. 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

  3. Utilities and statistics from Merit and others

  4. Much left to do:

    • More implementations and routers

    • Security

    • Scaling of address (*,G of PIM)

    • Scaling of use of bandwith (RSVP)