All things related to multicast

[Bob Riddle <>]

perhaps "conferencing" is too strong a word - perhaps "listening to a 
conference" is a useful multicast application.  You have the capability 
to interrupt, but you aren't require to source video or audio to 
"eavesdrop" - and if the "conference" is stimulating enough, the 
multicast reduces the bandwidth demands on your local infrastructure.  I 
think an interesting experiment to demonstrate this would be to take the 
Victoria's Secret annual webcast & multicast it to Abilene connectors & 
then monitor the joins on each campus ...

:-)

John Zwiebel wrote:

> On May 13, 2004, at 2:45 PM, Bill Owens wrote:
>
> > On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 02:23:17PM -0700, Greg Shepherd wrote:
> >
> > > Conferencing has been repeatedly miss-identified as an "ideal" 
> > > multicast
> > > application. It is not.
> >
> >
> > Why not?
> >
> > Bill.
>
> Because the size of the group isn't large enough to make multicast
> necessary.  It can be accomplished just as well via multicast.
> Kind of like the argument Shep, Dino, Amit and I are having right now
> over AOL.  :-)

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