IP Multicast - History and Milestones

History and Milestones

IP multicasting was first developed by Steve Deering while at Stanford University for which he received the IEEE Internet Award.

The MBONE was a long-running experimental approach to enabling multicast between sites through the use of tunnels. While the MBONE is no longer operational, there is renewed interest in tunneling multicast traffic once again in order to make the service available to a wide array of end users.

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