sheriff6
join:2001-04-25
Pittsburgh, PA | two OC3s and a microphone...
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. |
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justin
Australian
join:1999-05-28
Brooklyn, NY | 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. |
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Palivar
@wa.d
| 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. |
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