Track 2 - Internet Routing and IP Network management (7-Oct-96)
Multicast
2) MBONE
A) What is it
- an experimental IP multicasting infrastructure
- Multicasting
- subnets interconnected by multicast routers and "tunnels"
(IP encapsulation)
- forms a virtual network, overlaid on the Internet
- What does it do for you?
- video conferencing
- white board
- scientific data dissemination
- distributed interactive simulation tools