[140277] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Sun May 8 11:51:56 2011
Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 11:48:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Dillon" <wavetossed@googlemail.com>
> You do realize that unicast from Real Networks caches *IS* multicast,
> just not IP Multicast. Akamai runs a very large and successful multicast
> network which shows that there is great demand for multicast services,
> just not the low level kind provided by IP Multicast.
We're gonna have to agree to disagree on the definition of "multicast" then,
I guess, Mike. Cause my definition is "only one stream of it passes through
each interface of a given router", and I expect that doesn't fit the
situation you're talking about.
Cheers,
-- jra
