Re: bandwidth (and other support) required for multicast

[Bora Akyol <akyol at pluris.com>]

That doesn't help those of us that are behind firewalls ;-)

I like the way NANOG handles the broadcasts.

Maybe we can get one of the content distributors like Akamai to host the 
Quicktime broadcast.

Bora
Writing this from a powerbook running MasOS X


On Friday, March 30, 2001, at 09:20 AM, Joel Jaeggli wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
>
> > > Oh, and of course Internet standards based players are available for
> > > all platforms, right?
> >
> > Yes (for a larger value of "all" than RealPlayer supports). vic/vat/rat
> > are portable to many UNIX variants, and also run under Windows. I
> > think that MacOS is the only orphan in this scenario, but ISTR there
>
> macos has quicktime 5.0 which can handle both the h.261/pcm and mpeg 
> stream
>
> > are protocol proxies available that will gateway to something MacOS
> > can handle (assuming they can't directly view H.261 multicast with
> > some other tools).
> >
> > --lyndon
>
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