Todd wrote: >>Not necessarily. Multicast could very well be the real bandwidth saver >>here (and Flash doesn't support it). > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but ... isn't multicast = Flash Communication Server?
Multicast is a protocol that allows a server to send out 1 stream to many recipients at the same time. The hard work is distributed to all the switches and routers along the way and is not done by the server itself. The switches and routers remember which clients requested the stream and duplicate the input from the server to all the necessary outputs. So it is really an extremely powerfull one-to-many technology. Think serving a few hundred 1.5 Mbit/s MPEG-1 streams through a PC (I think it had a 10 Mbit NIC) and you get a picture :) I am not aware of FCS supporting multicast. The search results from the MM website when searching for "multicast" certainly don't suggest so. But of course I hope to be wrong :) If you are interested in multicast, visit http://videolab.uoregon.edu/ for more information and downloads (although you should check with your provider if you are on a multicast enabled network and most streams are 1.5 Mbit/s). Jochem ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
