The Internet multicast from ITS: how it was done and implications for the future

Author

De Moraes, Luis F M ; Weinstein, Stephen B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Federal Univ. of Rio do Janeiro, Brazil

Volume

33

Issue

1

fYear

1995

fDate

1/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

6

Lastpage

8

Abstract

Many sessions at the International Telecommunications Symposium (ITS) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in August 1994, were multicast through the Internet as live audio and pictures to viewers in the US and elsewhere. The Multicast Backbone (MBONE) frequently carries meetings of the Internet community and special events such as Space Shuttle launchings. It is beginning to be used for workshops and other professional gatherings. Making one of its major conferences available through MBONE was a first for the Communications Society and a cooperative effort by many people that relied on the generous loan of equipment and staff members by a number of companies. A special satellite data connection extended MBONE from the United States to Brazil. The authors report on how it was done and what it means for the Communications Society

Keywords

Internet; satellite communication; technological forecasting; teleconferencing; visual communication; August 1994; Communications Society; International Telecommunications Symposium; Internet multicast; MBONE; Multicast Backbone; professional gathering; workshops; Communications Society; Ethernet networks; IP networks; Operating systems; Routing; Satellites; Space shuttles; Spine; Unicast; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/35.339859

Filename

339859