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Re: Real Media and M-Bone feeds
- From: Vadim Antonov
- Date: Tue Oct 05 18:36:05 1999
Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com> wrote:
> And wouldn't a cache box with multiple people watching "live content"
> basically bring us right back to multicasting? One stream to the cache
> operator, multiple streams out to the clients... Multicasting.
There's a subtle but very important difference: such "multicasting"
does not involve injection of customer-originated routing information
into the global routing system.
Which means that scalability is not an issue.
> There's at least one commercial service that does this with RV and
> NetShow.
Yep.
--vadim
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