On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 03:04:35PM -0400, Deepak Jain mooed:
You would need multicast speakers (routers, etc) along the cable route to effectively multiple your bandwidth at all. Since cable is already multicasting (1 stream to many/all) I don't think I see any advantage.
Unless, of course, you expect cable customers to be broadcasting to other cable customers (say their own home video content)... Then MPEG2 Multicast would be your friend.
I don't think the answer is as simple as that. It really depends on the number of subscribers per last-hop multicast box, and on the number of channels you offer / popularity distribution of the channels. If you've got 5 channels and 10,000 subscribers per box, multicast saves you nothing. If you've got 1000 channels and 100 subscribers per box, ... -Dave -- work: dga@lcs.mit.edu me: dga@pobox.com MIT Laboratory for Computer Science http://www.angio.net/ I do not accept unsolicited commercial email. Do not spam me.