Unfortunately, there are no ISP in Israel that support Multicast. 2009/1/26 Arie Skliarouk <sklia...@gmail.com>
> Hi, > > My friend needs to broadcast an event live for 150000 viewers. Unicast >> broadcasting requires tremendous bandwidth and hence - money. Thus he asked >> me to check multicast option. >> > > Half an year ago it was not an option. It is still not. > > But BBC at UK started pushing ISPs into the right direction: > > From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast : > > *Recently the BBC <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC> has begun encouraging > UK-based ISPs <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISPs> to adopt Multicast onto > their networks by providing BBC Radio at higher > quality<http://bbc.co.uk/multicast/>than is available via their > Unicast <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicast> delivered services.* > > They provide notable service at http://www.bbc.co.uk/multicast/ that > (besides practical usefullness) allows easy check whether your ISP (in UK) > is multicast-capable. > > Is there similar multicast checking service in Israel? > > Which ISPs are known to support the multicast? > > -- > Arie > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >
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