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> Niels Bakker wrote: >> It would also be nice if operators with end users started offering >> native multicast. Although the AMS-IX multicast initiative started >> off with lots of enthusiasm, two years later it seems to have died >> almost completely. * [email protected] (Petri Helenius) [Tue 09 Jul 2002, 15:27 CEST]: > Most multicast projects go this way. The reason usually being one or more of; > A) ISP's want to charge extra for multicast > B) No content is being served over multicast > C) Firewalls do not pass multicast (usually non-issue on home users) Indeed. I'm personally most amazed that B) companies like shoutcast.com (who must be spending fortunes on bandwidth for all their streams) aren't pushing multicast more. Cheers, -- Niels.
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