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RE: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?
From: George Bonser <gbonser () seven com>
Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 09:03:39 -0700
Content can still be multicasted to the edge caching servers, for near-real-time updates, that you then may visit/view on-demand with your favorite unicast client Charles
Yep. That gives a hybrid approach that still greatly reduces the load on the ultimate content source. One stream for all. Individual providers could then hold the content for unicast distribution within their net or the broadcast provider could even provide the server collocated at the eyeball network. And as you mention, as people shift to using the Internet for stuff that was traditionally the domain of broadcast traffic anyway, the same broadcast concepts would still apply as being a good means of sending the traffic. It would actually be rather simple with tools that are available right now. Maybe content distribution using UFTP http://www.tcnj.edu/~bush/uftp.html and then unicast to the end user from those systems. But for major events or things like content that is normally a broadcast channel (e.g. cable news), straight multicast all the way to the user is probably best, in my opinion.
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- Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?, (continued)
- Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? Jay Ashworth (May 05)
- RE: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? Antonio Querubin (May 05)
- Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? Jay Ashworth (May 05)
- Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? Scott Helms (May 04)
- Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? Jeff Young (May 04)
- Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? LorĂ¡nd Jakab (May 05)
- Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? Michael Dillon (May 07)
- Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? Jeffrey S. Young (May 08)
- Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? Jay Ashworth (May 08)
- Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? Charles Morris (May 06)
- RE: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? George Bonser (May 06)
- Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? Scott Helms (May 06)
- Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? Valdis . Kletnieks (May 04)