Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 11:13:30 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca Subject: Re: Dinosaur ? Unicast : Multicast ;-) Message-ID: <XFMail.990917111330.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199909162238.PAA05609@rah.star-gate.com>
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This message is in MIME format --_=XFMail.1.3.1.p0.FreeBSD:990917111330:6599=_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 --_=XFMail.1.3.1.p0.FreeBSD:990917111330:6599=_ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.3ia iQCUAwUBN+GcwVbYW/HEoF9pAQGjDgP3fSpPD9BNFa6WrB7K/YsqGixxRSTsePKR ZqNxVDUeHBduHDk3KXmwOlFW6armOU5ECeOJ4VoHrzzVsQDYnjyRhHUSOU/XTO0f M2GvqqYnpLDiz0STNsmo7DC2EpoNizl5JD/zh+IXMwSDOAoHnUjAKBxed9ISSYPQ UJHCzxUqFQ== =muMF -----END PGP MESSAGE----- --_=XFMail.1.3.1.p0.FreeBSD:990917111330:6599=_-- End of MIME message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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