An Issue With MBone
An Issue With MBone
- Often MBone doesn’t work well for HEP meetings
- HEP video conferences often need sparse many-to-many network topologies
- Mbone sometimes does not map to sparse topologies
- Many HEP sites do not support multicast
- Thus MBone is not available
- Reserchers at these sites are cut off from meetings
- Some HEP sites have poor Internet connectivity
- Video conferencing requires ~200Kbps sustained bit rate
- Reserchers at these sites often cut off from meetings
- Privacy sometimes an issue
- MBone very public; encryption possible but sdr announces mtg