... That are totally reliant on the willingness of each individual higher education institution to implement multicast on their own internal networks to enable the functionality of the wider ja.net network as a whole.
I think the whole situation boils down to the simple fact that it's just not cost-effective enough for most service providers to actually implement multicast, so they don't bother. Which is really annoying, because it's really holding back the takeup of IPTV imho. That, and the unfortunate situation most ISPs have whereby they're burdened with BT's prohibitive pricing structure, to boot. The mobile phone trial isn't multicast, is it? > -----Original Message----- > From: Gordon Joly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 10 April 2007 22:42 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Cc: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk; Brian Butterworth > Subject: RE: [backstage] Multicast Trial > > At 09:51 +0100 10/4/07, Brian Butterworth wrote: > >Has there EVER been a multicast system that's worked well? > I tried it > >on a large BT network some years ago and when it worked it was a > >network management nightmare. Thankfully it worked badly or > not-at-all.... > > > >Brian Butterworth > > > Janet and other research networks have had multicast networks > for at least a decade. > > Gordon > > -- > "Think Feynman"///////// > http://pobox.com/~gordo/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/// > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To > unsubscribe, please visit > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
