"Relaying" video streams

[Bruce Dawson]

VirginSnow at vfemail.net wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:06:35 -0500
>> From: Bruce Dawson <jbd at codemeta.com>
>>     

>> We'd like to upload the video streams to a single server that multiple
>> people can connect to and view them. This way, we're only sending one
>> video stream up to the server, and the server can rebroadcast it to all
>> the connected clients.
>>     
>
> No matter where the server is, sending a fresh unicast copy to every
> client will consume (ie, waste) bandwidth.
True, but the idea is to stream to multiple clients from an ISP that
supports a high outgoing bandwidth, and to provide that stream from an
ISP connection that doesn't (like DSL/broadband/...) The "high output"
ISP would, in effect, become a "repeater".

--Bruce