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Yet another multicast scalability problem

  • From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
  • Date: Thu, 18 Jul 96 11:23:01 JST
  • Cc: suzuki@nal.ntt.jp

In ISSLL ML, Suzuki-san (suzuki@nal.ntt.jp) wrote:

> UNI4.0 ABR is practically defined in the point-to-point connection
> environment only. I think if a multicast flow in a IP subnetwork is 
> established by ATM point-to-point connections, it wastes ATM network
> bandwidth. Do you have good solutions for this problem?

which raises a problem of which service class we can use with best
effort multicast traffic.

It seems to me that use of p-to-p ABR makes ATM multicast cluster
even smaller than described in draft-armitage-ion-cluster-size-00.txt.

							Masataka Ohta