Re: Real Media and M-Bone feeds

[Jeff Mcadams <jeffm () iglou com>]

Thus spake Tim Wolfe
> On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Sam Thomas wrote:
> > With multicast, if there is a large enough collection
> > of receivers to justify a cache, there will be at most 1*bitrate on any
> > single connection on the internal provider network. 

> You seem to be basing your calculations on the fact that all of the intended 
> recipients would be capable of receiving native multicast, which I haven't  
> found to be the case..

Well now, *that's* pretty circular reasoning.  :)  Because multicast
isn't widely implemented its not a good solution, and because its not a
good solution, it shouldn't be widely implemented.

Hrmm.
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