How streaming media can be used in commercial mass <br /> distribution

Sammanfattning

Mass distribution with techniques as multicast and peer-to-peer are becoming

increasingly important in the Internet. Today the distribution of sound and

video over Internet, so called streaming media, is static due to the unicast

method. This results in a linear increase of distribution costs and therefore

no conditions for commercial scalability.

This thesis describes why multicast may be the only scalable alternative for

commercial mass distribution of streaming media over Internet. Mass

distribution through peer-to-peer technology promises a lot but is fronting a

couple of great challenges, for example asymmetric bandwidth, locality and

legalization.

Mass distribution with multicast is facing two conclusive challenges that

settle the future, limited private and corporate networks and need of

business solutions connecting the market actors.

This thesis presents a dynamic payment model for multicast that make an

expansion with commercial conditions possible for the market actors.

Konfidentiell till 2008-08-31