On 04/06/2013, at 5:01 PM, Tim Salmon <t...@unsw.edu.au> wrote: > Is it appropriate for us at UNSW with our unicast-only network to set up a > unicast bridge or is this more appropriately set up in a multicast > environment to assist those that are stranded, like us, in a unicast world? > > P.S. anyone else in the Australia/AP area noticed general problems with > reliability of bridges lately?
Very broadly, the second option (bridge set up in multicast environment) is the most useful and intended scenario. However its a free world and there is at least one use case where a bridge setting up a bridge in a unicast environment could be appropriate. In that case, all participants in your meetings would/should connect via that same bridge. Connections via other bridges or via multicast wouldn't work or, at best, would work only by chance. This is similar to traditional multipoint VC meetings where participants connect to a common MCU. This technique wouldn't be useful as a day to day mechanism to connect to meetings though. About bridge reliability in general, if you experience problems its better to tell its admins about it - either directly or via the appropriate list (this list for APAG & AccessGrid.org bridges) - straight away so the problem can be fixed. We'd rather have these services running smoothly rather than have people stewing about things not working. chris Christoph Willing +61 7 3365 8316 Research Computing Centre University of Queensland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT departments: 1. A cloud service to automate IT design, transition and operations 2. Dashboards that offer high-level views of enterprise services 3. A single system of record for all IT processes http://p.sf.net/sfu/servicenow-d2d-j _______________________________________________ accessgrid-tech mailing list accessgrid-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/accessgrid-tech
