(At this point, we're kind of off-topic.) My guess then is that you haven't tried to stream tons of multicast data through switches then (either high-end or low-end).
Where I work, we have. And we have found many of those switches to be broken, only supporting a few IGMP groups (no higher than 16 as I recall), or just not able to keep up with a full 38Mbps MPEG-2 stream. There's apparently a few DSLAMs (for DSL) that can't keep up with anything close to that kind of traffic either. I agree that multicast is the way to go for broadcast TV. But if the underlying equipment can't deliver the traffic, then there will be problems. Then again, we've also had our share of problems with GigaBit switches not being able to deliver a GigaBit of data. But that's another story. -- Joe --- "Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 08:22 -0700, Joe Votour wrote: > > A lot of the existing infrastructure isn't > > designed for the bandwidth and routing that it > will > > require. > > Bandwidth need not be a problem. Multicast. Doubt > they will use such > an elegant solution, but it's there waiting to be > used. > > b. > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
