Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-08 Thread Michael Dillon
Many years ago I was the MCI side of the Real Broadcast Network.  Real Networks arranged to broadcast a Rolling Stones concert.  We had the ability to multicast on the Mbone and unicast from Real Networks caches. We figured that we'd get a hit rate of 70% multicast (those who wanted to see

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-08 Thread Jeffrey S. Young
On 08/05/2011, at 4:10 PM, Michael Dillon wavetos...@googlemail.com wrote: Many years ago I was the MCI side of the Real Broadcast Network. Real Networks arranged to broadcast a Rolling Stones concert. We had the ability to multicast on the Mbone and unicast from Real Networks caches.

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-05-08 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Michael Dillon wavetos...@googlemail.com You do realize that unicast from Real Networks caches *IS* multicast, just not IP Multicast. Akamai runs a very large and successful multicast network which shows that there is great demand for multicast services,

Re: Current recommendations for 2 x full bgp feed

2011-05-08 Thread Brent Jones
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Support supp...@comgw.co.uk wrote: Can anyone give me their recommendation for current hardware to take 2 x full BGP feeds over 1Gb/s ports with a third Gb port for the local network? I did this about 6/7 years ago with a Cisco 7200VXR NPE300 256MB RAM but I'm

Re: Current recommendations for 2 x full bgp feed

2011-05-08 Thread Brandon Ross
On Sun, 8 May 2011, Brent Jones wrote: Juniper is also making small enterprise routers based on the MX80 platform, but with reduced number of interfaces. They should be out soon They are effectively already out in that they have a deep discount on restricted bundles. Basically the bundles

Re: Current recommendations for 2 x full bgp feed

2011-05-08 Thread George Herbert
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Support supp...@comgw.co.uk wrote: Can anyone give me their recommendation for current hardware to take 2 x full BGP feeds over 1Gb/s ports with a third Gb port for the local network? I did this about 6/7 years ago with a Cisco 7200VXR NPE300 256MB RAM but I'm