[25343] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Real Media and M-Bone feeds
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Tue Oct 5 18:42:23 1999
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 15:14:12 -0700
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
Message-Id: <199910052214.PAA01131@kitty.kotovnik.com>
To: spork@inch.com
Cc: alex@Relcom.EU.net, andym@ntt.net, ddivinia@broadcast.com,
nanog@merit.edu, randy@psg.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com> wrote:
> 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 a subtle but very important difference: such "multicasting"
does not involve injection of customer-originated routing information
into the global routing system.
Which means that scalability is not an issue.
> There's at least one commercial service that does this with RV and
> NetShow.
Yep.
--vadim
