Multicast is heavily used for applications such as stock trading and industrial networks. So it really depends...
On Thu, Aug 9, 2018, 00:23 Justin M. Streiner <strein...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 8 Aug 2018, Mankamana Mishra (mankamis) via NANOG wrote: > > > * 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. > > The amount of multicast traffic on an enterprise network will depend > greatly on how multicast is being used, and to some extent, the type of > business the enterprise is in. > > An enterprise that uses multicast primarily for IPTV distribution might > have different business and technology drivers than, say, a hospital > or healthcare organization that has patient monitors that use multicast > to communicate back to a central monitoring station. The percentage of > multicast traffic in those two scenarios might be vastly different, but > no less important to their respective organizations. > > Thank you > jms >
