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Re: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years?

  • From: Michael.Dillon
  • Date: Fri May 13 06:12:57 2005 
> So imagine a residential area all pulling digital video over wireless.
> Sound familiar? Ironically close to TV! (yet so different)

Yes, so different...

Here's why: http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10462
Terabyte Firewire/USB2.0 hard drive for $979

If your network has to feed terabyte drives like that one,
would you prefer to do it with unicast or with 
a combination of multicast, peer-2-peer and CDNs?
Wireless offers the possibility of cheap, simple
multicast, depending on how it is configured.

--Michael Dillon