> 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?
I don't know. I never see any signs that multicast is used anywhere. Why not? _______________________________________________ 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/
