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Hi, Curtis Generous wrote: > And with the push to use multicast across such high latency links, you > can get better dessimination of some types of data which involve many > sites within a satellite's foot print (e.g. nntp, ftp mirroring, db > syncronization). Or broadcasted web caching - people who subscribe get daily updates to their favorite sites. > There also is a new proposed spec for doing FTP using multicasting > (MFTP - multicast FTP) which has been tested using some INTELSAT birds > with good results. MFTP has also the characteristic of reduced > sensitivity to long latency, but also to the bit error rate (BER) which > is also a problem when using satellites. Sounds good for push media, too --- without multicast, these will kill international links. -- miguel a.l. paraz <[email protected]> +63-2-893-0850 iphil communications, makati city, philippines <http://www.iphil.net>
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