http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r805287 en Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:20:57 EDT Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:20:57 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,817856 anon : Well I don't think multicasting is dead, as many companies are just beginning to recognize the substantial benefits in bandwidth utilization that can be had, and in fact a lot of work is currently being done to scale this technology so that it can run better on the Internet. But it still has a little ways to go and like you said new financial/business models will need to be drawn up before carriers will want to offer it.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,817856 Thu, 10 May 2001 11:27:21 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,805287 justin : multicast is all but dead .. none of the carriers will carry multicast traffic, despite that many of their routers are capable.
Why? probably because they can't figure out how to charge for it.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,805287 Mon, 07 May 2001 16:35:34 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,805176 sheriff : This is a perfect example of an application where IPv4 unicast falls flat on its face. Enabling the applications to run multicast could save them a ton of bandwidth.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,805176 Mon, 07 May 2001 16:13:08 EDT