At 20:44 PDT on Thursday, August 20, 1998, Jon Mansey wrote:
|Anyone have any comments, experience, opinions about Mentat's SkyX.
|
|I dont recall ever having seen any mention of it on the list, while it
|sounds somewhat on-topic.
Ditto for their XTP implementation. My requirement is for a reliable
multicast protocol to deliver video-on-demand at DS3 speeds with up to
600 receivers.
A Mentat representative described SkyX as follows:
>SkyX is a combination of a modified Mentat TCP stack, a modified Mentat XTP
>stack, and a TCP to XTP translation module. We have modified XTP for
>additional performance in this environment and to allow transparent
>handling of TCP data. In other words, SkyX will not interoperate with XTP,
>but does share the same source code base. It is also possible to run with
>straight XTP as well if that is of interest to you. SkyX does include
>XTP's reliable multicast functionality.
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