All things related to multicast

["Marshall Eubanks" <>]

I thought that the group might be interested in the following video over IP 
multicast being deployed using DSL in France :

http://www.convergedigest.com/DSL/lastmilearticle.asp?ID=9740

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 France Telecom has deployed a dedicated end-to-end architecture for its 
TV-over-DSL. Its partners
include Alcatel for the multicast-enabled DSLAMs , SAGEM for the MPEG-2 
set-top decoders, Thalès for
the service management platform and Thomson for the video encoders. Digital 
rights management is
provided with the Viaccess conditional access system. 

</excerpt>

Unfortunately, my French sources tell me that this is going to be a
walled garden, with no external multicast peering.

I expect to see a lot more of this.

Happy New Year to All;

Marshall