Real Media and M-Bone feeds

Tue Oct 5 21:34:45 UTC 1999

On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Vadim Antonov wrote:
> ddivinia at broadcast.com (Darin Divinia) wrote:
> 
> >Caching doesn't work for live content.
> 
> Why?  (And what is "live content"?  You mean interactive?
> Or "live" TV coverage?)

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.

There's at least one commercial service that does this with RV and
NetShow.

Charles

> --vadim
> 