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popper · 10-06-2006, 01:45

iv been banging on about Multicasting for a very long time, and it seems the likes of NTL will not Re-activate multicasting on their routers as a matter of course, BECAUSE they cant find a viable charging model and no other reason.

as iv said for years, it would open up a vast (old)new market, and save everyones bandwidth, and that includes the end users becoming far more effective for streaming their content to many people with nothing more than a single multicast UDP channel (, use VLC for instance, test MC for yourself in your own lan setup, it works a treat).

at least anyone within the NTL network if nothing else, thats assuming they dont want to peer with the EU multicasting network or some other Org (because of cost etc).

you can use multicasting today by tunneling into the multicasted ISP's network, such as the 'SURFnet Detective' app people use and run as part of the vast EU network, alas NTL dont seem to care about the inovation, just the cash......

10-06-2006, 01:45	#7
popper Inactive Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 3,270	Re: BBC Multicast iv been banging on about Multicasting for a very long time, and it seems the likes of NTL will not Re-activate multicasting on their routers as a matter of course, BECAUSE they cant find a viable charging model and no other reason. as iv said for years, it would open up a vast (old)new market, and save everyones bandwidth, and that includes the end users becoming far more effective for streaming their content to many people with nothing more than a single multicast UDP channel (, use VLC for instance, test MC for yourself in your own lan setup, it works a treat). at least anyone within the NTL network if nothing else, thats assuming they dont want to peer with the EU multicasting network or some other Org (because of cost etc). you can use multicasting today by tunneling into the multicasted ISP's network, such as the 'SURFnet Detective' app people use and run as part of the vast EU network, alas NTL dont seem to care about the inovation, just the cash......