Deployment of IPv6 Multicasting in the WIDE 6bone (1)

The WIDE 6bone
One of the oldest and largest IPv6 backbones in the world
Since June 9th, 1996
Operated by the WIDE project
28 routers in the backbone

Native IPv6 links
ATM, serial, ethernet
Only a few tunnels in the backbone

Experimentation of IPv6 multicasting in the WIDE 6bone
PIM-SM with 2 Rendezvous Points
Several applications
multicast chatting
feeding audio and video streams
remote lectures using multicasted Digital Video (DV) streams