[25313] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Real Media and M-Bone feeds
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue Oct 5 09:13:48 1999
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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To: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 06:12:50 -0700
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> Multicast is broken as an idea, period. Now, why won't we
> just forget about it and spend our life doing something
> useful instead?
because, although it is getting less expensive quickly, transport costs
money. multicast promises to reduce that cost near sources.
this is a better fantasy than the qos smokers who think it will effectively
get more bits into the pipe.
randy
