Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 15:38:40 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca Cc: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dinosaur ? Unicast : Multicast ;-) Message-ID: <199909162238.PAA05609@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Sep 1999 16:27:38 MDT." <199909162227.QAA58562@orthanc.ab.ca>
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> 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
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