Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 18:49:46 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca Subject: Re: Dinosaur ? Unicast : Multicast ;-) Message-ID: <199909170149.SAA06679@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Sep 1999 11:13:30 %2B0930." <XFMail.990917111330.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Sorry I mixed two things up . High speed video to the home will perhaps force the issue of ip multicast. > This message is in MIME format > --_=XFMail.1.3.1.p0.FreeBSD:990917111330:6599=_ > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > On 16-Sep-99 Amancio Hasty wrote: > > You are right until the last mile-hop issue gets resolved is > > going to be tough for the unicast people 8) > > But multicast doesn't solve the 'last mile-hop problem'.. It doesn't affect it > at all... > > Multicast only saves bandwidth for the service provider. (and their service > provider) > > How do you charge for multicast though? :) > (And I'm sure an ISP would just love you not paying your back channel tariffs > if they gave you multicast and you ran a server) > > --- > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au > "The nice thing about standards is that there > are so many of them to choose from." > -- Andrew Tanenbaum > > --_=XFMail.1.3.1.p0.FreeBSD:990917111330:6599=_ > Content-Type: application/pgp-signature > > -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- > Version: 2.6.3ia > > iQCUAwUBN+GcwVbYW/HEoF9pAQGjDgP3fSpPD9BNFa6WrB7K/YsqGixxRSTsePKR > ZqNxVDUeHBduHDk3KXmwOlFW6armOU5ECeOJ4VoHrzzVsQDYnjyRhHUSOU/XTO0f > M2GvqqYnpLDiz0STNsmo7DC2EpoNizl5JD/zh+IXMwSDOAoHnUjAKBxed9ISSYPQ > UJHCzxUqFQ== > =muMF > -----END PGP MESSAGE----- > > --_=XFMail.1.3.1.p0.FreeBSD:990917111330:6599=_-- > End of MIME message -- Amancio Hasty hasty@rah.star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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