From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Sep 16 15:39:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from rah.star-gate.com (216-200-29-190.snj0.flashcom.net [216.200.29.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D214514C93 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 15:39:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA05609; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 15:38:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199909162238.PAA05609@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca Cc: "Louis A. Mamakos" , freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dinosaur ? Unicast : Multicast ;-) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 Sep 1999 16:27:38 MDT." <199909162227.QAA58562@orthanc.ab.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 15:38:40 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > That's *not* what the vendors presenting papers at the latest > ACM SIGCOMM[1] were saying. They've finally realized that there's no > hope at all of providing commercial services based on unicast > technology; there simply is not enough bandwidth out there. I > fully expect to see the big content providers to start offering > multicast based services by early next year. > Nah, each one of you is probably going to get a wave length . The real issue is deployment of fiber to the home. You are right until the last mile-hop issue gets resolved is going to be tough for the unicast people 8) -- Amancio Hasty hasty@rah.star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message