An Internet MBone Broadcast Management System

by:

David Wu, Andrew Swan, and Lawrence A. Rowe
Computer Science Division - EECS
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1776

Abstract

The Internet Multicast Backbone (MBone) has seen tremendous growth during the past four years. For the past three years, we have broadcast a weekly seminar on the MBone. As we worked to improve the broadcasts, we found the effort to set up and produce each broadcast has grown. This problem motivated us to develope a tool to automate the more tedious tasks required to produce a broadcast. The motivation, requirements, and implementation of the system are presented.