All things related to multicast

[Mark Fullmer <>]

The UO NetAid multicast sessions were a success at OSU.  We had 318
IP/TV and 27 MacTV downloads, although it looks like there were
only 106 IP's that connected to the UO IP/TV Content manager on the 9th,
it still accounts for 27 buildings which were individual routed networks.
Most of the receivers were students living in the dorms.

Considering the concert was on a Saturday when most of the faculty
and staff were not on campus, there was a home football game, advertising
was only done the day before, and the event was carried on VH1, the
number of receivers was reasonably high.

With a 106 active receivers @ 1.5Mb/s the 1.5Mb/s (or two) multicast
stream(s) vs. potentially 159Mb/s for replicated unicast made this an event
that would not have been possible without multicast.

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mark