On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > I imagine a world where MLB generates a data stream of the Red Sox in the > World Series. They send one data stream, and it multicasts to all the > millions of people watching. The stream is kept as consolidated as possible
Actually this sort of thing was done long ago. As far back as 1992-4 I saw concerts & shuttle launches over multicast. > I wonder if my expectations are totally off? Does IPv6 multicast satisfy > the scenario of video multicast to millions of simultaneous viewers? Are there problems with IPv4 multicast scalability? Cheers, Rob -- Email: rob...@timetraveller.org IRC: Solver Web: http://www.practicalsysadmin.com Open Source: The revolution that silently changed the world _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
