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Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones
- From: Thomas R. Charron
- Date: Thu Jun 14 22:26:29 2001
Title: Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones
>Essentially every major network operator has one network engineer
>who can set up multicast for customers. The problem is very few
>networks have figured out how to turn multicast into a commercial
>product. So if you don't find that one engineer, you are out of
>luck.
>Unicast streaming may be less efficient, but most providers can figure
>out how to charge for it and make it a supported product. Unfortunately
>some folks have confused multimedia with multicast. While I've seen
>many multimedia multicast applications, I haven't seen one which can't
>have its essential elements replicated by unicast streams. Is there
>a killer-ap for multicast?
A South Korean company has developed an app that sets up multicast on a network automatically. No router config required. It does it with a small active-x that installs on a user's machine and gives a server on the ntwk all the info it needs to route the multicast stream. Pretty cool stuff. I'd call it a killer-ap for multicasting.
Tom
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