At 04:49 PM 1/9/99 -0500, Dave Farber wrote:
I have stayed out of this for a while recovering from the trial.
We are drug pushers. We tout our technology but don't ever use it. What is wrong with live mbone, real video, real audio -- pick your poison, so all can at least attend the meetings if not the coffee breaks. If you tell me it is no god and does not work , may I quote you to the NY Times in an article about the smashing of the hope for the Internet :-)
So why not??!!
Because they don't work well enough in the current Internet.
Let's be a little careful about demanding immediate, large-scale, production use of technologies that, at best, are currently useful only as demonstrations.
Uh Dave ...
I've used Internet video conferencing with a few thousand folks. Audio got me even more, on the same bandwidth. If you run a send-only mutli-cast feed for video and two-way Internet phone you could handle quite a few folks. The big problem is the bandwidth, into the servers, for the Internet telephony stuff and *that* doesn't have to be at the meeting site. The meeting site only needs a satellite server for the audio and that could handle the video as well.
A partial T1 or FrameRelay link to the site should be sufficient.
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