All things related to multicast

[Pekka Savola <>]

On Sat, 26 Feb 2011, Ray Soucy wrote:
> It's basically just a way of turning multicast into unicast unless you
> have a lot of relays, and the barriers preventing the deployment of
> relays are the same barriers preventing the routing of global
> multicast.  At that point, you might as well go with a streaming
> server that can transcode the stream into something more manageable
> and that can be viewed in the browser without the need to install
> client applications.

Transit ISPs have at least a short-term financial advantage from deploying 
AMT relays -- if multicast would get used by their customer ISPs' end 
users. The situation persists until the customer ISPs have deployed their 
own relays and/or multicast capability to the customer :P

Pekka