>>On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: >>> >>> As long as we're bitching about the network: would it be possible to >>> start doing some unicast streaming of sessions in the future? Access to >>> multicast hasn't gotten significantly better the past decade, but >>> streaming over unicast is now routine as the codecs are so much better >>> these days, as is typical access bandwidth. I'll happily take 40 kbps >>> MPEG-4 audio only; the video is so badly out of sync that it is >>> unwatchable most of the time anyway. >> >>if you want to show up with encoders I'll give you an audio/video feed... >>then you can baby your boxes and not go to any meeting you want all week >>just like me. I would be able lot cheaper and less work if the multicast >>folks just paid to go to the meeting like normal people. Actually, I'm not even sure I agree with this. The reason is because if we had more than a handful of people watching remotely, it would add quite a bit of congestion to the network link. So, if you are willing to be sent a unicast stream and then provide the bandwidth to replicate it to everyone else in the world who wants it by unicast, then I think we have a doable solution. -kevin