[asterisk-biz] Implementation of Video Conferencing using Asterisk

[Sergey Tamkovich]

Trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 11:11 +0400, Sergey Tamkovich wrote:
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>> Usually, video conferencing hardware (Sony, Tandberg) doesn't use 
>> multicast for conferencing itself. Unicast only.
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> to a point that is required if you have a central server that muxes the
> video since it takes everyone but you and combines them somehow.  This
> results in a custom stream for each participant.
>   
Exactly.
> multicast would be ideal if each client is broadcasting to other clients
> on the local network, and those clients are rendering the participants
> itself into one display.
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I didn't meet that kind of terminals, also customers prefer to use 
conferencing on the WAN instead of LAN.