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- From: finn@isi.edu (Greg Finn)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.cell-relay
- Subject: Re: Curious attitude ...
- Message-ID: <22062@venera.isi.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 21:31:37 GMT
- References: <12387@pinard> <22041@venera.isi.edu> <1992Jul28.104754.1@research.ptt.nl>
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- In article <1992Jul28.104754.1@research.ptt.nl> walvdrk@research.ptt.nl (KEES VAN DER WAL) writes:
- > finn@isi.edu (Greg Finn) writes:
-
- >> The live audio multicast of the IETF meeting last week was
- >> carried to at least 100 if not 200 sites and a few continents. Oddly
- >> enough, this was done using TCP/IP. It was also accompanied by
- >> live compressed video.
-
- >Broadcasting <whatever> seems an order of magnitude simpler to me than
- >interactive video or voice. Whatever the variance in delay is, you just need a
- >sufficiently large buffer at the receiving end to restore timing requirements.
- >And if the network load is sufficiently low, the loss of data can be kept to
- >an acceptable level.
-
- No. Multicast is NOT broadcasting. A routing tree is
- constructed so that the traffic flows according to what is ideally a
- minimum-cost spanning tree. Hardly broadcast I think.
-
- Interactive multi-media conferencing experiments have gone on
- over the Internet for quite a few years. Multi-site teleconferencing
- goes on between sites that have the hardware every couple of days.
- Much of the early work on discrete cosine transform compression was
- done under DARPA support. Groups were building such hardware for
- interactive network use a decade ago. Now it can be placed onto a
- chip or two and boards exist for the PC even, let along big
- workstations.
-
- Leading edge work on this goes on at a number of DARPA
- affiliated labs and has been for years. Whether it will achieve
- widespread commercial introduction awaits high-speed long-haul network
- costs dropping a lot, which has very little to do with ATM or any
- protocols for that matter.
-
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