All things related to multicast

[Greg Shepherd <>]

Yep!, but right now I'm streaming downloads with it. If you like, I can
set it up for an mcast VOD demo again later this week. I post the current
services at:

http://www.shepfarm.com/juniper/multicast/df

Greg

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Michael Luby wrote:

> Yes, we at Digital Fountain have a product that provides VOD using multicast
> (although it is not "cycling through", it is always creating unique encoding
> material about each section, but it is based on ideas that are related to
> the pyramid scheme).   See
> http://www.digitalfountain.com/products/streamingFountain.htm for details on
> this specific product (and http://www.digitalfountain.com/products/index.htm
> for the full family of products, all of which can deliver using multicast
> transport).  And yes, I believe that Greg is at least sometimes sourcing
> streaming VOD content using multicast using our Streaming box.
> Mike Luby
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 
> 
> [mailto:]On
>  Behalf Of Marshall Eubanks
> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 1:18 PM
> To: Zhu Nan
> Cc: 
> ;
>  Greg Shepherd
> Subject: Re: Any periodic broadcasting in practice now on Internet?
>
>
> Dear Zhu;
>
>    We have continual broadcasting of audio and video multicasts on the
> Internet. Is that what you mean by
> periodic ? Or do you mean a cyclic multicast of a loop to emulate video
> on demand ? Digital Fountain has such a product, and Greg Shepard was
> running a test of it from Oregon. I am not sure if it is up, but I am
> sure he can tell you about it.
>
> Test your network for multicast :
> http://www.multicasttech.com/mt/
>
> Our streams :
> Audio - On-the-I.com
> MPEG-4 video  - www.multicasttech.com/otv
>
> Digital Fountain :
> http://www.digitalfountain.com/
>
> Greg is cc'ed above.
>
>
> --
>                                  Regards
>                                  Marshall Eubanks
>
>
> Zhu Nan wrote:
>
> >     Hi all, are there any periodic broadcasting service on the Internet
> ,and it can provide Near-VOD video service in practice ?  Can you give me
> some examples ? or just prototype is also OK.
> >
> >     I know to deploy periodic broadcasting in a local network is easy. but
> how about running on a wider network such as Internet, across AS? the same
> easy?
> >
> >     There are some periodic broadcast schemes such as Pyramid, Skyscraper
> and GDB... with fully analysis and discuss. But are there any such system in
> practice?
> >
> >     I know there are lots broadcasting system in real time works, but I
> hear no periodic broadcasting example with Near-VOD service. Tell me some.
> Thank you.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
> T.M. Eubanks
> Multicast Technologies, Inc
> 10301 Democracy Lane, Suite 410
> Fairfax, Virginia 22030
> Phone : 703-293-9624       Fax     : 703-293-9609
> e-mail : 
> 
> http://www.multicasttech.com
>
>  Status of Multicast on the Web  :
>  http://www.multicasttech.com/status/index.html
>
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