[3659] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: audio/video again
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henk Smit)
Tue Aug 6 00:32:09 1996
From: Henk Smit <hsmit@cisco.com>
To: bilse@EU.net (Per Gregers Bilse)
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 96 16:41:48 PDT
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199608052148.AA14102@jotun.EU.net>; from "Per Gregers Bilse" at Aug 5, 96 11:48 pm
Per G. Bilse wrote:
> In the good (but somewhat boring) old
> days, there wasn't really a lot of applications outside the normal
> UNIX and TCP-based environment, with multicasting being the exception
Yesterday I watch a "cyber-TV-program" on US TV. They showed a "cool
screensaver" that was continuously displaying new stock quotes it was
getting over the net. And another screensaver that displayed video
pictures of the Olympic Games.
What worries me here is that people are developing applications that
use (lots of) bandwidth, even when people are not even using their
computers.
Henk.
