Financial exchanges around the world use multicast. On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 1:31 PM, Stan Barber <s...@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 > > > > >
