Hi, My friend needs to broadcast an event live for 150000 viewers. Unicast > broadcasting requires tremendous bandwidth and hence - money. Thus he asked > me to check multicast option. >
Half an year ago it was not an option. It is still not. But BBC at UK started pushing ISPs into the right direction: >From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast : *Recently the BBC <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC> has begun encouraging UK-based ISPs <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISPs> to adopt Multicast onto their networks by providing BBC Radio at higher quality<http://bbc.co.uk/multicast/>than is available via their Unicast <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicast> delivered services.* They provide notable service at http://www.bbc.co.uk/multicast/ that (besides practical usefullness) allows easy check whether your ISP (in UK) is multicast-capable. Is there similar multicast checking service in Israel? Which ISPs are known to support the multicast? -- Arie
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