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Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones
From: brandon () rd bbc co uk (BrandonButterworth)
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 21:46:57 +0100 (BST)
HOWEVER, most of the 24x7 media sites (CNN, etc.) are doing on-demand video, rather than streaming a constant feed.
1) rights 2) unicast doesn't scale to the sort of audiences of radio/tv broadcasts and if you try it becomes financially unviable too (even with people attempting to fake multicast, e.g. Akamai) One way to manage both is to use the VCR model
On the one hand, content providers aren't offering 24x7 multicast feeds because there isn't enough multicast access at the end-points.
We offer it regardless but there's not many can use it
Apart from 24x7 broadcast there isn't an obvious killer app.
And there's reasonable argument over making the intenet = tv brandon
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- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones, (continued)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Austin Schutz (Jun 11)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Fletcher E Kittredge (Jun 11)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Michael Whisenant (Jun 10)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Michael Whisenant (Jun 10)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Tim Winders (Jun 10)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Brandon Ross (Jun 10)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Sean Donelan (Jun 10)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Tim Winders (Jun 10)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Eric A. Hall (Jun 10)
- RE: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Michael Whisenant (Jun 10)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones BrandonButterworth (Jun 10)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Eric A. Hall (Jun 10)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Masataka Ohta (Jun 10)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Hank Nussbacher (Jun 10)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Sean Donelan (Jun 11)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Robert Beverly (Jun 11)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Thomas R. Charron (Jun 14)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Robert E. Seastrom (Jun 14)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones John Fraizer (Jun 14)
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