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On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 03:04:35PM -0400, Deepak Jain mooed: > > > You would need multicast speakers (routers, etc) along the cable route to > effectively multiple your bandwidth at all. Since cable is already > multicasting (1 stream to many/all) I don't think I see any advantage. > > Unless, of course, you expect cable customers to be broadcasting to other > cable customers (say their own home video content)... Then MPEG2 Multicast > would be your friend. I don't think the answer is as simple as that. It really depends on the number of subscribers per last-hop multicast box, and on the number of channels you offer / popularity distribution of the channels. If you've got 5 channels and 10,000 subscribers per box, multicast saves you nothing. If you've got 1000 channels and 100 subscribers per box, ... -Dave -- work: [email protected] me: [email protected] MIT Laboratory for Computer Science http://www.angio.net/ I do not accept unsolicited commercial email. Do not spam me.
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