Hi, multicast to the end-user and multicast in the backbone of a single ISP (for IPTV for instance) is much different. The real problem with multicast is to open it to the end-users and to manage cross ISP flows. Without solving those issues, multicast will never replace P2P.
There is a nice paper that describes what are the issues with multicast, it is ten years old, but still relevant: Deployment issues for the IP multicast service and architecture C Diot, BN Levine, B Lyles, H Kassem, D Balensiefen - IEEE Network, 2000 Arnaud. On 24/02/2010 15:56, Marc Manthey wrote: > hello sorry when i raise this up again, > > > true its really amazing that such a simple thing like chatroulette get > so much attention > but i am sure some of use would not believe that twitter were such a > hype > with about 35 million tweets per day now , but back to peer 2 peer > and flash. > > When we look at the ipv4 exhaustion counter we see that we are in a > middle > of a transition from ipv4 to ipv6, so IF ipv6 would enable multicast > by default > would we have a comparable solution for realtime streaming > transportation ? > > I would like to ask any experts if you think that multicast is a real > peer 2 peer competitor > and could decrease streaming traffic in the near ipv6 future. > > Thanks > > > Marc > > > -- > Les enfants teribbles - research / deployment > Marc Manthey- Vogelsangerstrasse 97 > 50823 Köln - Germany > Tel.:0049-221-29891489 > Mobil:0049-1577-3329231 > project : http://opencu.org > blog: http://macbroadcast.org > twitter: http://twitter.com/macbroadcast/ > facebook : http://opencu.tk > > > Opinions expressed may not even be mine by the time you read them, and > certainly don't reflect those of any other entity (legal or otherwise). > > Please note that according to the German law on data retention, > information on every electronic information exchange with me is > retained for a period of six months. > > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > -- Arnaud Legout, Ph.D. INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Planète Phone : 00.33.4.92.38.78.15 2004 route des lucioles - BP 93 Fax : 00.33.4.92.38.79.78 06902 Sophia Antipolis CEDEX E-mail: arnaud.leg...@inria.fr FRANCE Web : http://www-sop.inria.fr/planete/Arnaud.Legout/index.html _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
