8 Oct
2007
8 Oct
'07
6:23 p.m.
On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
michael.dillon@bt.com wrote:
And P2P is the main way to reduce the overall load that video places on the Internet.
We could have used IP Multicast, but nobody on the consumer side wanted to carry state instead of packets.
Multicast works when watching broadcast TV or recordings that were scheduled in advance, but people on the net want video on demand. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <dot@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ IRISH SEA: SOUTHERLY, BACKING NORTHEASTERLY FOR A TIME, 3 OR 4. SLIGHT OR MODERATE. SHOWERS. MODERATE OR GOOD, OCCASIONALLY POOR.