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Troll On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Thomas R. Charron wrote: > >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 > --- John Fraizer EnterZone, Inc
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