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In a message written on Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 10:06:10AM -0500, Chris Parker wrote: > >My own view is that customers don't want it, because end users > >don't have it. Dial up users will probably never get multicast. > > Yahoo/Broadcast.com pushed this pretty heavily. MS's own media player > supports multicast, so there definitely a *lot* of clients out there. There is a lot of client _SOFTWARE_ that supports it. There are very few clients on multicast enabled networks. > There are a list of providers supporting multicast in conjunction with > Yahoo/Broadcast.com found at: > > http://www.broadcast.com/mcisp/ > > I see quite a few cable and dialup providers on there ( and I work for > one of 'em... ) It's a cute list. Where's AT&T (with all the old @Home customers)? Where AOL? Don't see UUNet either. Almost as important, people like Sprint are on the list. Last I checked (admittedly, over a year ago) there was no multicast for Sprint DSL customers, and Sprint high speed customers had to specifically request it, it was not turned on by default. Result, less than 1% of Sprint's customers actually had it turned on, I believe. I'd be suprised if 1% of _residential end users_ were on multicast enabled networks today. Very surprised. -- Leo Bicknell - [email protected] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [email protected], www.tmbg.org
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