[156340] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Big Temporary Networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Sat Sep 15 21:19:46 2012
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 21:18:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120915072340.GX24232@besserwisser.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "M=C3=A5ns Nilsson" <mansaxel@besserwisser.org>
> > It would still be nice to multicast them inside our network (and out
> > to whomever wants to watch), but what the heck's the consumer-level
> > client side of multicast video streaming look like these days?
>=20
> IIRC a number of IETF meetings were badly maimed in the wireless
> side until people remembered that the WLAN was no place for multicast
> video. VLC does mcast really nice. We're testing it for replacing
> antenna distribution systems and DVB-T receivers at work.
Then you want to know that the HD HomeRun people, Silicon Dust, have versio=
ns
of their tuners that will generate multicast, I would suspect.
You're saying that *receiving* multicast streams over WLAN works poorly?
Can you expand on that?
Cheers,
-- jra
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