On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:43:57 -0800 (PST) Joel Jaeggli <joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Simon Leinen wrote: > > > > > However I don't know how wide the "reach" of Internet multicast is, in > > particular outside our education/research networking community (and > > even within that community, multicast is only available to a > > minority). > > > > Some broadband ISPs (at least here in Europe, but probably elsewhere > > as well) have started to distribute TV-over-ADSL using IP multicast. > > But I'm not sure whether they also provide their users with multicast > > connectivity to the rest of the Internet. Anyone knows? > > By-in-large they are not interested in the interdomain case. There has > been a substantial investment in similar rollouts among asian broadband > isps... > Yes indeed. This seems to be limited replacing older distribution methods from the head end to (somewhere close to) the set top box. I have yet to find one that is interested in interdomain multicast. (They already have infrastructure to get "their" channels, typically by satellite, and they have no interest in other channels.) I think that this will only change if sufficiently many internet video channels become popular enough that they can't ignore them. Regards Marshall Eubanks > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2 > > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf