Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

Marshall Eubanks wrote:

Actually, this is true with unicast as well.

This can (I think) largely be handled by a fairly moderate amount of Forward Error Correction.

Regards Marshall Before "streaming" meant HTTP-like protocols over port 80 and UDP was actually used, we did some experiments with FEC and discovered that reasonable interleaving (so that two consequtive packets lost could be recovered) and 1:10 FEC resulted in zero-loss environment in all cases we tested.

Pete