All things related to multicast

[Michael Lambert <>]

Hi Ed,

Have you successfully brought up a multicast beacon (http:// 
sourceforge.net/projects/multicastbeacon) inside your campus?

Michael

On 25 Jun 2007, at 17:56, 

 wrote:

> Several months ago Arizona State University signed an agreement  
> with OSTN Cable Television to re-distribute it's multicast feed  
> over our campus CATV system.
> Since that time we have tried unsuccessfully to receive their I2  
> multicast.
>
> Our campus is an I2 member and equipped to receive I2 multicast  
> streams. We’ve proven this to ourselves by successfully receiving  
> any active MC stream with a SAP announcement listed in VLC viewers.
>
> However, using the URL provided by OSTN and an actual MC IP address  
> recently provided by them has only resulted in acquiring their roll- 
> over,unicast stream. This unicast stream coupled with WMP is too  
> unreliable for retransmission.
>
> Has anyone had any problems connecting to OSTN’s MC stream?
> Were you able to remedy the situation? How did you do it?
> Any idea about what we may be doing wrong at our end.
>
>
> Chief Engineer
> Arizona State University
> 480-965-5715