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Unicast streaming may be less efficient, but most providers can figure out how to charge for it and make it a supported product. Unfortunately some folks have confused multimedia with multicast. While I've seen many multimedia multicast applications, I haven't seen one which can't have its essential elements replicated by unicast streams. Is there a killer-ap for multicast?
Multicast is an extension to Unicast. I don't think there is a multicast application that cannot be run over unicast protocols as well. Our application for multicast will be: live broadcast of academic and technical classes live broadcast of sporting events live broadcast of campus television station live broadcast of campus radio station video conferencing across multiple locations All these things CAN be done using unicast, but multicast is much more efficient. === Tim ********************************************** Tim Winders, MCSE, CNE, CCNA Associate Dean of Information Technology South Plains College Levelland, TX 79336 Phone: 806-894-9611 x 2369 FAX: 806-894-1549 Email: TWinders@SPC.cc.tx.us ********************************************** -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (OSF1) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iEYEARECAAYFAjsjdAwACgkQTPuHnIooYbwXHwCfaSW3hdDEyuj8ZBrXm3PmWNCz ozgAn3ON/8TLL6rROboNnSQW1WlXfJd0 =5I3y -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----