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Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones
From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall () ehsco com>
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:14:22 -0700
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)
Yeap, which is why the multicast holds up well for 24x7 streaming. Unicast sucks for it because of the infrastructure demand. Internet radio exists as a good current candidate for multicasting, since it isn't used in VCR mode.
And there's reasonable argument over making the intenet = tv
Who's to say it can't be both TV and VCR and magazine all at once. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
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- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Fletcher E Kittredge (Jun 11)
- Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones Michael Whisenant (Jun 10)
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- 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)
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