From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Nov 9 0:23:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from defiant.vmunix.org (defiant.vmunix.org [62.208.181.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8451737B479 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 00:23:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by defiant.vmunix.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id DFDC07AEEB; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 09:23:22 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: RTP vs. HTTP as streaming protocol, SMIL In-Reply-To: from Thomas Runge at "Nov 9, 2000 08:53:25 am" To: Thomas Runge Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 09:23:21 +0100 (CET) Cc: Torsten Blum , uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de, freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Reply-To: torstenb@vmunix.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20001109082322.DFDC07AEEB@defiant.vmunix.org> From: torstenb@defiant.vmunix.org (Torsten Blum) Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thomas Runge wrote: > > I work for a major ISP in Germany and I can count the number of customers > > asking for multicast uplink on one hand. Heck, even the number of multicast > > enabled ISPs could probably be counted with one hand. > > I think, thats one of the reasons, why nobody uses mcast. Just because > they can't *rely*, that their customers have it. Yes, but > And ISP's are guilty >:-) that's not the problem. I know a lot of people working for small and medium sized german ISPs and they all told me that no customer asks for it. As a result, they don't have it - because it costs manpower to understand multicast, get experience with it and offer it as a service. Many of the companies (including small/medium sized ISPs) who have multicast connectivity have it because the techies at those ISPs knew about it and want to play with it ;-( -tb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message