[Nel] Suggestion for the NeL network library / architecture

Dim Segebart zager@teleaction.com
Fri, 08 Dec 2000 11:39:18 +0100


Hello !
Just one question.

>From http://pgm.tibco.com/draft-speakman-pgm-spec-04.txt
>>> PGM runs over a datagram multicast protocol such as IP multicast [5].

AFAIK, many ISP's ban multicast traffic and many users'll be unable to use
software based on it.
Am I wrong or missing something ?
TIA

--
Dim


Jean-Noel Moyne wrote:

> Just had a look at your site and your project because my brother is
> going to work with you guys (as a graphic artist). I see that you have
> need for fast reliable real-time asynchronous (and probably one to many)
> network transport for your messaging. That need being for server to
> server communication, not server to client.
>
> You should have a look at PGM, which is an open reliable multicast
> protocol designed by Cisco and TIBCO (the company I work for), which is
> design to solve just this kind of problems in the most efficient way.
>
> While TIBCO makes a complete messaging system that will use PGM and that
> is a commercial product, we are also releasing an Open Source version of
> the PGM protocol stack (which is probably all you need, and all you
> would want to use, being an Open Source project yourself).
>
> As a suggestion from a network professional with a lot of experience
> designing large scale scalable real time oriented distributed systems,
> you should take a look at it.
>
> http://pgm.tibco.com/
>
>     JNM
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