Carl,
Most likely not. Apart from the M-bone and a few other standalone projects, the Internet is currently not very multicast friendly. There is a lot of efforts to change that but we are still a long way away from a pure multicast enabled Internet.
Hope this helps,
Harold Ritter
Sr Technical Leader
CCIE 4168 (R&S, SP)
harold@cisco.com
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