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To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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	"Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca
Subject: Re: Dinosaur ? Unicast : Multicast ;-) 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 17 Sep 1999 11:13:30 +0930."
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From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Sorry I mixed two things up .

High speed video to the home will perhaps force the issue of ip multicast.


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> On 16-Sep-99 Amancio Hasty wrote:
> >  You are right until the last mile-hop issue gets resolved is
> >  going to be tough for the unicast people 8)
> 
> But multicast doesn't solve the 'last mile-hop problem'.. It doesn't affect it
> at all...
> 
> Multicast only saves bandwidth for the service provider. (and their service
> provider)
> 
> How do you charge for multicast though? :)
> (And I'm sure an ISP would just love you not paying your back channel tariffs
> if they gave you multicast and you ran a server)
> 
> ---
> Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
> for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
> "The nice thing about standards is that there
> are so many of them to choose from."
>   -- Andrew Tanenbaum
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 Amancio Hasty
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