All things related to multicast

[Marshall Eubanks <>]

I regard the dorm support as important as (at least for  
AmericaFree.TV) our audience in any time zone is highest
from 7:00 PM to about 11:00 PM or Midnight local time, which means  
that people are presumably at home and not at the office.

Regards
Marshall


On May 15, 2008, at 9:10 AM, Simon Leinen wrote:

> Marshall Eubanks writes:
> > That is good to know. I specifically spoke to people from
> > continental Europe about this, and of course in the UK things can be
> > different.
>
> Apologies, I know Europe can be confusing[1].  Even within just
> continental Europe there's lots of different countries, each with its
> own little "national research and education network" (NREN).  In some
> countries, very few students live in dorms, in others - as you heard -
> they have to get connectivity elsewhere, in some countries they
> connect to the NREN either through university networks or directly.
>
> For SWITCH (Switzerland), I can say there are very few dormitories at
> universities.  As for the campus networks here, I would say about a
> third of the larger ones are fully multicast-enabled.
>
> SURFnet, the Dutch NREN, has a project ("Fiber to the dormitory") to
> connect dorms directly to the NREN, if I understand correctly.  They
> also offer an ADSL service to other home users (in most European
> countries, the incumbent telco's ADSL service can be resold by other
> ISPs), and there seems to be a multicast pilot over that as well.
>
> European NRENs are surveyed yearly by an organization called "TERENA",
> and the results can be found here:
>
>    http://www.terena.org/activities/compendium/
>
> Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to contain any information on either
> NREN multicast support or dorm connections.  I'll try to get that
> changed (for 2009 at the earliest )-:
> --
> Simon.
>
> [1] http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2007/pulp-fiction-royale-p1.php