[Linux-il] Linux and video multicasting

[Arie Skliarouk]

Hi,

My friend needs to broadcast an event live for 150000 viewers. Unicast
> broadcasting requires tremendous bandwidth and hence - money. Thus he asked
> me to check multicast option.
>

Half an year ago it was not an option. It is still not.

But BBC at UK started pushing ISPs into the right direction:

>From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast :

*Recently the BBC <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC> has begun encouraging
UK-based ISPs <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISPs> to adopt Multicast onto
their networks by providing BBC Radio at higher
quality<http://bbc.co.uk/multicast/>than is available via their
Unicast <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicast> delivered services.*

They provide notable service at http://www.bbc.co.uk/multicast/ that
(besides practical usefullness) allows easy check whether your ISP (in UK)
is multicast-capable.

Is there similar multicast checking service in Israel?

Which ISPs are known to support the multicast?

-- 
Arie
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