> So imagine a residential area all pulling digital video over wireless. > Sound familiar? Ironically close to TV! (yet so different)
Yes, so different... Here's why: http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10462 Terabyte Firewire/USB2.0 hard drive for $979 If your network has to feed terabyte drives like that one, would you prefer to do it with unicast or with a combination of multicast, peer-2-peer and CDNs? Wireless offers the possibility of cheap, simple multicast, depending on how it is configured. --Michael Dillon
