[17461] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: The Great Exchange
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Farmer)
Tue Jun 2 18:51:18 1998
From: Pete Farmer <pfarmer@strategies-u.com>
To: "NANOG (E-mail)" <nanog@merit.edu>
Cc: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 15:45:28 -0700
Roeland M.J. Meyer [mailto:rmeyer@mhsc.com] wrote on June 02, 1998 at
7:12 AM:
>Even when [decent bandwidth at the end-user site] does happen,
>they won't want to use it for video. A classic is the MCI
>commercial where that gal was telecommuting (bath-robing at noon),
>the last thing such would want is a video-based conference. Been
>there, doing that.
Real-time, two-way videoconferencing is just *one* form of video over
IP.
In some people's eyes, video over IP might involve someone Web-surfing
to a site from which they can view Episode 89 of Gilligan's Island
(streamed video), possibly with commercials embedded. There are all
sorts of possible pricing models here, ranging from flat-rate
subscription fees to pay-per-use to commercial-paid, and everything
in-between. Lots of possible cache schemes, too.
Pete
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