[25338] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Real Media and M-Bone feeds
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Sprickman)
Tue Oct 5 17:36:36 1999
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 17:34:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
Cc: alex@Relcom.EU.net, andym@ntt.net, ddivinia@broadcast.com,
nanog@merit.edu, randy@psg.com
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On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Vadim Antonov wrote:
> ddivinia@broadcast.com (Darin Divinia) wrote:
>
> >Caching doesn't work for live content.
>
> Why? (And what is "live content"? You mean interactive?
> Or "live" TV coverage?)
And wouldn't a cache box with multiple people watching "live content"
basically bring us right back to multicasting? One stream to the cache
operator, multiple streams out to the clients... Multicasting.
There's at least one commercial service that does this with RV and
NetShow.
Charles
> --vadim
>
