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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. -- Jeff McAdams Email: [email protected] Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456
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