Enabling multicast on Wireless

Greetings
I know it's possible but I wonder if it is advisable to configure multicast on wireless network.
We have 3 WLC 5508 with 7.0.98.0 code and Base license
we have over 160 AP's running N
the clients are connected in a great big address pool - with possibility of 8000+ host ip's
we currently have over 1000+ clients connecting
Management expects wireless to work like a wired network.
They want to enable multicast for applications like Apple Bonjour and other programs and also for streaming video.
I am of the opinion it's not the greatest of ideas.
I see people enabling multicast but not on the scale with the user base we have.
any advise

I have enabled multicast on wireless before, but not on this scale. First of all the idea of having so many clients in the same IP range doesnt seem a good idea regardless of multicast. Assuming you set up multicast on the WLC and LAN correctly, then having a lot of receivers is what multicast was designed for (however wireless multicast performance isnt as good as wired, not sure about the new features in WLC v7). The questions to ask is how many IPmc sources you might have? If there are a lot of sources, then this will be a problem rather than how many receivers there are.

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