Of course one of the obvious solutions to bandwidth issues is, if you're streaming live, to multicast. Of course, multicasting has been extremely expensive and difficult to implement in the past, but it's much easier now with some promising new technologies. I'm familiar with companies that are multicasting to large audiences profitably. I won't take any more of anyone's time, but if multicasting is something you have thought about, respond and I can talk to you more about it.
Tom
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=>Does anyone have solutions to the conundrum that for a streaming media
=>business to make money we are squeezed between the cost of buying
=>bandwidth
=>on peak usage, but charging clients on a flat, total Mbytes
=>transferred. Do
=>any of you have profitable controls over this condition?
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