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Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> Actually, this is true with unicast as well.
>
> This can (I think) largely be handled by a fairly moderate amount of
> Forward Error Correction.
>
> Regards
> Marshall
Before "streaming" meant HTTP-like protocols over port 80 and UDP was
actually used, we did some experiments with FEC and discovered that
reasonable interleaving (so that two consequtive packets lost could be
recovered) and 1:10 FEC resulted in zero-loss environment in all cases
we tested.
Pete
