Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones

[Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp>]

Brandon;

> > 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

The straight forward model to support the audiences of raiod/tv
by the Internet is to integrate the Internet with broadcasting
by sending IP (multicast) packet over radio wave.

                                                        Masataka Ohta