[AG-TECH] IGMPv3, Source Specific Multicast, fully supported in Windows XP

[Ivan R. Judson]

I don't have a problem with that answer (it fits my model of 2.0), but
we still have to have something to argue about.  So how do I tell others
what I "can" do?

--Ivan

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Nickless [mailto:nickless at mcs.anl.gov] 
> Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 2:00 PM
> To: judson at mcs.anl.gov
> Cc: 'Bill Nickless'; 'Jay Beavers'; ag-tech at accessgrid.org
> Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] IGMPv3, Source Specific Multicast, 
> fully supported in Windows XP
> 
> 
> At 01:31 PM 8/16/2002 -0500, Ivan R. Judson wrote:
> >This is something that I have a hard time thinking about.  
> My concern 
> >is mostly based around the fact that these seem to be things that AG 
> >Nodes/Users need to have in the technology portfolio.  Ie, 
> can the user 
> >send more than one stream?  What format? What quality?  If 
> not, who's 
> >doing it for them?  Is this a network service?  Does it need to be 
> >advertised?
> 
> It seems to me that the best place to code a video stream 
> into multiple 
> formats is at the sender.
> 
>   - The sender has the raw, uncompressed video available by virtue of
>     the direct connection to the camera.  This eliminates the need for
>     decoding a compressed stream and re-encoding it somewhere else.
> 
>   - In the multicast transport model, the incoming traffic level is
>     generally much larger than the outgoing traffic.  Thus, there is
>     usually plento of bandwidth available for multiple 
> outgoing streams
>     at the sender.
> 
>   - The receiver knows best which streams are "interesting".  By
>     choosing which (S,G)s to join, the receiver can help the network
>     deliver only the traffic that is necessary for the displays
>     currently visible at the local site.  Generally, bandwidth
>     limitations are closer to the edge than the core of the Internet.
> 
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