All things related to multicast

["Richard Mavrogeanes" <>]

We are quite knowledgeable about this topic. 
Short version: they do pay for it.
Longer version: it's expensive.
Still longer version: we (multicast advocates) cannot claim sufficient number 
of eyeballs to make it interesting to them. Sort of a catch-22.

rich


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Gilbert 
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Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 3:20 PM
To: 'John Watters'; 'wg-multicast'
Subject: RE: Why don't we use multicast more often?



There are some financials that do distribute CNN and other channels
around their networks using multicast and as far as I know they do not
pay for it.  How did they do it?, they asked permission and the TV
companies allowed it.


I'll bet that if we had CNN, the Weather Channel, and one or two other
TV channels with live feeds available I could get a lot of people
interested on my campus real quick. 



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