BBC, which was worried about the cost of online streaming of the Olympics, is using multi-casting technology to minimize the costs…Multi-casting is the closest the medium will come to broadcast, according to Richard Cooper, head of technology at BBC New Media. Instead of each individual user calling up their own Webcast directly from the BBC, some will access those already requested by subscribers to the same ISP.
Meanwhile, the trial of it Internet Media Player (iMP) draws heavily on peer-to-peer file-sharing to offer users programmes from the past seven days and previews of those for the week ahead.
Computing.co.uk: Network capacity has been increased from 3.5 to 12Gb/s and new datacentre facilities added to manage up to 40,000 simultaneous broadband streams. The trial will use Real 10 player, as well as H.264 video and AAC audio standards.
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