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Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?


From: Tim Durack <tdurack () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:40:45 -0400

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com> wrote:
On 4/29/11 10:12 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:

It turns out that as a content provider you can unicast video delivery
without coordinating the admission of your content onto every edge
eyeball network on the planet. It's cheap enough that it makes money on
fairly straght-forward internet business models and it apparently scales
to meet the needs of justin beiber fans.



Imagine: multicast internet radio! Awesome!

I have a feeling streaming is going to stay unicast.

Multicast is a great technical solution in search of a good business problem.

-- 
Tim:>


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