----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jeff Wheeler" <j...@inconcepts.biz>
> The potential savings is limited by the over-speed of the mcast stream > vs real-time, and the density of mcast listener groups. Given that > access network speeds continue to increase, yet ISPs are really not > increasing "bandwidth caps," it is reasonable to assume that an ISP > might like to allow its subscribers to receive a very fast mcast > stream for a short period of time, instead of all of those subscribers > receiving many, slow mcast streams. You know what would make this work *well*? If IAPs *didn't include mcast traffic in your cap*. Since the reason for their caps is, in the final analysis *to limit THEIR transit costs*, multicast would seem to be a really good means toward that end, unless my final analysis is contradicted by something better justified and documented... This would turn multicast into a Consumer-pull technology. Cheers, -- jra
