[25349] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Real Media and M-Bone feeds
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Mcadams)
Tue Oct 5 22:25:38 1999
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 22:20:38 -0400
From: Jeff Mcadams <jeffm@iglou.com>
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Thus spake Tim Wolfe
>On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Sam Thomas wrote:
>> With multicast, if there is a large enough collection
>> of receivers to justify a cache, there will be at most 1*bitrate on any
>> single connection on the internal provider network.
>You seem to be basing your calculations on the fact that all of the intended
>recipients would be capable of receiving native multicast, which I haven't
>found to be the case..
Well now, *that's* pretty circular reasoning. :) Because multicast
isn't widely implemented its not a good solution, and because its not a
good solution, it shouldn't be widely implemented.
Hrmm.
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