On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 08:01:11PM +0900, "Thomas R. Charron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:

> 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

It's actually cheap - a free service with many backbones - and not that hard
to configure.  But not many network admins have bothered, since the
vast majority of multicast-enabled content has been academic conferences with 
small audiences.

Cheers,

Troy

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