Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 09:23:21 +0100 (CET) From: torstenb@defiant.vmunix.org (Torsten Blum) To: Thomas Runge <runge@rostock.zgdv.de> Cc: Torsten Blum <torstenb@vmunix.org>, uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de, freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RTP vs. HTTP as streaming protocol, SMIL Message-ID: <20001109082322.DFDC07AEEB@defiant.vmunix.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011090849440.281-100000@penguin.egd.igd.fhg.de> from Thomas Runge at "Nov 9, 2000 08:53:25 am"
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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
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