[25353] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Real Media and M-Bone feeds
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Greenwell)
Wed Oct 6 00:03:53 1999
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 20:58:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: Patrick Greenwell <patrick@cybernothing.org>
To: Tim Wolfe <tim@clipper.net>
Cc: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>,
Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>, 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, Tim Wolfe wrote:
>
> On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Charles Sprickman 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.
>
> Yes except that it wouldn't be reliant on X number of backbone providers
> playing nicely in the multicast arena to work and a provider could to a much
> larger extent retain control of their own destiny..
At the rate merger-mania is going there isn't going to be more than one
backbone provider in a few years anyways.... :-|
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