Multicast
- unicast media streams don't scale to large audiences:
- server load
- network access (T3 only 1500 listeners)
- backbone load
- IP multicast: one stream for any number of listeners
- live events
- near media-on-demand: staggered starting times
- RTSP supports control of multicast events
Last modified: 1997-02-27 by Henning Schulzrinne