koitsu
Premium
join:2002-07-16
Mountain View, CA
| Multicast ...has been around for years, handling this exact situation for quite some time. Yet ISPs continue to avoid it, for reasons unknown to mankind.
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Making life hard for others since 1977.
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spamd
Premium
join:2001-04-22
Rockford, IL | Re: Multicast Well with IPTV on the horizon they will have to embrace multi-cast.
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When everything is coming your way, you are in the wrong lane. | |
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 | patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY | Re: Multicast No they dont, they can just throttle and point to "upto" clauses in the TOS. | |
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espaeth
Digital Plumber
Premium,MVM
join:2001-04-21
Minneapolis, MN | Re: Multicast Multicast IPTV streams would most certainly be separate from the HSI traffic, the same way that MSO VoIP services are segmented off today. | |
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join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY | Re: Multicast Yes, but only the "partner" IPTV provider of the telco would get the QOS guarentee/tagging. Net Neutrality here we come. | |
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join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY | Re: Multicast How about a torrent with 300 peers? | |
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join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY | Re: Multicast Torrents can be streamed, with traditional swarming to make up for lost blocks. Its not rocket science. Only question is, will the power ever allow their holy multicast IPs to land in the hands of consumers? | |
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