Salutations:

Richard Hutnik wrote:
Perhaps someone could illuminate me here. Wouldn't it be possible to
use this ability to have a cheap way to broadcast sound or video over
the Net to a large number of people, without taxing bandwidth? It
would be unidirectional, but so is radio and television broadcasting.
Have one machine do streaming audio and video in an unsecure VPN and
have other people "tune into" this network and pull the stream packets
off the network.

Well AkamaiGHost is *sort of* doing this now:

http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lis...3-07/0082.html

I don't know though - I've been able to get fairly good quality fixed
stream 20kbs RealAudio directly off my new media prototype here such that
it reliably supports about 40 'live' streams per 1mbs of outbound pipe -
theoretically good to 256 http streams per IP - with no 'bottom of the
well', no buffering, no cache copy left on the listener's drive and about 6
seconds to stream lock from anywhere on the planet..

If you have RealAudio 8 or better on anything with a 28.8 modem or better,
you are welcome to test it from where you are.. There's no subscription or
sign up required and it should spin out about 8 hours of tunes before it
decides you've had enough..

It feeding about 20 streams right now (about half my bandwidth) so you can
get a feel for how it works in production if you want to. I'm using it to
hard test secure W2K thin server Apache configuration and services load
balancing..

Just how many simultaneous streams are you thinking of addressing? Local IP
range or International?

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