On Dec 2, 2010, at 2:08 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Antonio Querubin" <t...@lava.net> >> >> On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Jay Ashworth wrote: >>> Oh: and all the extra servers and switches necessary to set that up? >> >>> *Way* more power than the equivalent transmitters and TV sets. Even >>> if you add in the cable headends, I suspect. >> >> Have you heard of multicast? :) > > Yes, Tony, but they can't *count the connected users that way*, you see. > Sure you can.
> For my part, as someone who used to run a small edge network, what I wonder > is this: is there a multicast repeater daemon of some sort, where I can put > it on my edge, and have it catch any source requested by an inside user and > re-multicast it to my LAN, so that my uplink isn't loaded by multiple > connections? > Sounds like you are describing a rendezvous point, but, perhaps I am misunderstanding your intent. Owen
