University of Cambridge Computer Lab's MBone index Page

Here are some quick pointers to ZIP you around within this document:

cl.cam.ac.uk TEST transmissions (next, mrouted versions, TP4, BLT, MISC)
Mrouted Monitoring has now stopped due to UKERNA's charging policy.
Other packages (SNMP, rtp, sd-launch, MBone-collect)
Contact info and maps, (visualisation)
Pointers to other useful info (rtp, mbone.com, faq, MICE at ucl and edinburgh, lut: mboned and agenda and schedule)
JIPS MBone info,
email address

cl.cam.ac.uk TEST transmissions

For info on TEST Seminar transmissions from cl.cam.ac.uk, see University of Cambridge CL Mbone Seminar Transmissions , but note that the routine weekly transmissions have ceased. Look at the current mrouted versions
Local users transmitting a session may care to browse instructions for the use of TP4, the BLT, and the roaming kit.

Mrouted Monitoring

Due to a new policy by UKERNA to charge for use of the `Fat Pipe' by the byte, the mwatch MBone monitoring which I used to perform has had to cease, as it will cost my department money.

Contact info and maps

Contact lists are available for EU (old) and NSFnet.
You may care to look at the MBone diary at uq.oz.au.
I'm building up a set of maps -- please tell me of any others of which you know. AU now has its own WWW page -- any more ?
There are PS, GIF and small GIF images of the world (small int or ext or large int or ext) EU (at www.mbone.de, (nl (mbone2.ps)) (no) (int or ext) and NA (int or ext).
Planet Multicast: visualization of the Mbone (was http://www.nlanr.net/Viz/Mbone/).

Pointers to other useful info

For any info about RTP, see cs.columbia.edu
The MBONE Information Web should be the place to find things.
The mbone-faq, stanford and RIPE
Code repositories at
- ucl MICE page, code and W95/NT tools
- Edinburgh MICE page and code
- unige.ch info
- nic.merit.edu's Index of MBone Binaries by Platform
- taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil as ps, txt and HTML.
- UAkron DECOSF1 (ALPHA) FTP archives.
- lut.ac.uk: multicast transport protocols, sad (announce sessions), mdump (dumps MC packets), etc
- For Linux, esler at washington
- For irix 4, ftp.sgi.com:sgi/ipmcast .
- ftp://debra.dgbt.doc.ca/pub/mbone/mirror/
- thepoint.net's MBone FTP archives
See the MBONE Deployment Working Group (MBONED) page.
To browse or book a session, see the MBone Global Agenda or the MBone schedule page
For a singe point of attachment Cisco see the thepoint doc.

Other Packages

merit's SNMP-Based MBone Management Project
program to monitor members of a session.
small applet that dumps RTP and RTCP packets.
mbone-vcr can record and replay sessions
Vinay Kumar's Media on Demand (idea by Anders Klemets)
Bill fenner's sd-launch allows you to start clients.

JIPS MBone info

The bits I have collected are so out of date that I have deleted the links. I still have a picture of Cambridge, and the auto generated status of JIPS (or an old cache) [or with all tunnels (cache)], for EU (c), NZ (c, all), AU (c, all), FI (c) and the whole mbone (large!). You can see the routes to the US via EU and SURA (and backup).
ABone members can look at the JIPS ABone page.
See also the official JIPS MBone info.
Look at the current mrouted versions (and for ja.net)

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