All things related to multicast

[Peter Gutierrez <>]

Alan Crosswell wrote:
> Mike,
> 
> It's next to impossible to get people to change their habits.  They go
> to the CNN web site.  When that doesn't work, they go to the NYTimes or
> other web sites to get the streams.  We did internally share our VLC
> instructions among about 300 IT staff.  Still, many of them later told
> me they went to the CNN site.  We did use multicast for several
> congregation areas where we had large screen projection set up.
> 

We used the multicast feed the same way, i.e., large seating areas with
screen projection. It worked great. We also saw the spike of unicast
traffic for all the desktops that were watching.

After having done (multi|uni)cast video for a long time, I think the
feed looked great. To see all those little flags waving back and forth
without boxy pixellations was amazing.

I want to thank Northwestern University and its staff for providing this
 service to the Internet2 community.

PeterG

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