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 GuspazGuspazPremium,MVM
join:2001-11-05
Montreal, QC
kudos:16 | Not going to happen. BitTorrents advantages pretty much all disappear when dealing with live streams; you then become limited to the average upstream capacity in the network. In Ontario/Quebec, that'd be about half a megabit, which may or may not be barely enough for acceptable SD quality.
All the problems, however, disappear if you switch to IPv6. IPv6 makes multicast a required part of the spec, and so I'd expect that it'd be supported by pretty much any ISP that provided native IPv6 connectivity.
So, instead of spending $22 million on this research, I think they'd have been better off spending the money on encouraging IPv6 adoption. As soon as you have widespread access to multicast, you can do television broadcasting almost trivially. | |
 espaethDigital PlumberPremium,MVM
join:2001-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
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| said by Guspaz:All the problems, however, disappear if you switch to IPv6. IPv6 makes multicast a required part of the spec, and so I'd expect that it'd be supported by pretty much any ISP that provided native IPv6 connectivity. Multicast is a required part of the IPv4 spec as well. Just because the feature is part of the spec doesn't mean you need to implement it (think QoS/ToS). I expect Internet adoption of multicast in v6 to be about as widespread as v4. (ie, nonexistent) | | |
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