Chapter 39. How Multicast IP and the MBone Work
Today’s Internet is made up not just of text, but of sound, video, animation, 3D objects, and more. Web pages are interactive, and video-based shows are commonly broadcast. Already, in fact, video-based shows and movies are being broadcast.
This can cause serious congestion on the wires and networks that make up the Internet. That’s only one problem with video broadcasting over the Internet. There is another problem as well—there’s no practical way for broadcasts to be sent over the Internet because the files clog it up. Suppose, for example, that someone wants to broadcast a telecast of ...
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