On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Craig Whitmore wrote:
Orcon, Xtra and Attica, IHUG where talking/connecting via MBGP/msdp @ APE 6+ months ago in various forms so we could broadcast our Multicast Streams etc to each other, but as there is/was no content it mostly went into nothingness.
There was a little bit of content (mostly multicast mp3 streams of radio stations), but content is either the egg where the network to deliver it on is the chicken.
As no (as far as I know) Carriers can give a connection which include Multicast Access, a Tunnel is needed to someplace overseas to connect to (If anyone knows of a good place I can set up the tunnel please let me know, so I can set one up).
Overseas content proved to be largely boring, lossy, and not worth getting back when I played with it at ihug. Now this might have changed since then, but I suspect that locally generated content is still the way to go.
Then you have to get it to the users,(The hard part). Customers would have to run Tunnels to the ISP (as Telecom Jetstream/Jetstart/Dialup) network
Running many tunnels defeats some of the purpose of multicast, since you're then back to multiple streams through the core of your network. Unless of course you can distribute the tunnel endpoints out to close to your customers, but then you may as well just use unicast and relay it. --David