On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Tim Wolfe wrote:
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Charles Sprickman wrote:
And wouldn't a cache box with multiple people watching "live content" basically bring us right back to multicasting? One stream to the cache operator, multiple streams out to the clients... Multicasting.
Yes except that it wouldn't be reliant on X number of backbone providers playing nicely in the multicast arena to work and a provider could to a much larger extent retain control of their own destiny..
At the rate merger-mania is going there isn't going to be more than one backbone provider in a few years anyways.... :-| /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Patrick Greenwell "This is our time. It will not come again." \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/