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RE: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?
From: George Bonser <gbonser () seven com>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:15:42 -0700
Imagine: multicast internet radio! Awesome!That would, indeed, be awesome; when everyone in my office was listening to the royal wedding, there would be a *much* higher chance of them all being in sync. Cheers, -- jra
Exactly. If more people/networks took advantage of multicast, it would greatly reduce the bandwidth requirements, particularly for live events. If there were 50 people listening to a popular radio show or watching a live TV event in your office, for example, there would be only one feed crossing the wire into your office. And only one feed crossing into your provider's network. I have *no* idea why applications developers have not been more interested in this, particularly with radio and television stations providing live streams on the net. It is absolutely a waste of resources to have a separate stream for each listener of a live event. The mobile networks are more up to speed in this regard. Verizon Vcast is probably the largest implementation that I know of.
Current thread:
- Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...), (continued)
- Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...) Octavio Alvarez (Apr 30)
- Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...) Robert Bonomi (Apr 29)
- Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? Joel Jaeggli (Apr 29)
- Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? Tim Durack (Apr 29)
- RE: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? George Bonser (Apr 29)
- Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? Jay Ashworth (Apr 29)
- Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? Simon Lockhart (Apr 29)
- Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? Jay Ashworth (Apr 29)
- RE: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? George Bonser (Apr 29)
- Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? Tim Durack (Apr 29)
- Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? Jay Ashworth (Apr 29)
- RE: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? George Bonser (Apr 29)
- RE: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? david raistrick (Apr 29)
- Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? Jay Ashworth (Apr 29)
- Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? david raistrick (Apr 29)
- Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? Saku Ytti (Apr 29)
- RE: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? Robert Bonomi (Apr 29)
- Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 30)
- Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? Daniel Roesen (Apr 29)
- Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? Martin Millnert (Apr 29)
- Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? Jared Mauch (Apr 29)
- Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? Chris Adams (Apr 30)