On Dec 2, 2010, at 2:08 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
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From: "Antonio Querubin" <tony@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