Re: Which ASP shall answer in Traffic Mode = Multicast?

On 07/09/06, Haresign Lincoln <[email protected]> wrote:
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> One possible use for multicast would be if you are trying to build some
> redundancy mechanism in.  For example:
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> A message gets sent to all ASPs within an AS.  By some agreed mechanism
> within the AS, the ASPs would know who is responsible for responding to that

Added complexity comes to mind. But I am sure this has all been
thrashed out many times in the past.

> message.  However, if a particular ASP died in the middle of a call, all the
> state was being maintained by the other ASPs, so another ASP could take over
> the call.

Ditto.
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> This is probably over engineered, and we are not doing it, but it would be
> one scenario that you might use this capability.
>

Does any vendor actually provide the ASP broadcast option?

Regards

Lee