[JDEV] Videoconferencing with jabber / Re:[speex-dev]Videoconferencing with speex and jabber

[Ulrich B. Staudinger]

Am Di, 2003-11-25 um 15.00 schrieb Richard Dobson:
> > > Just imagine you have ten people in a conference talking with each other
> > > .... a peer would send ten streams to ten people, that's quite a waste
> > > of bandwidth IMO.
> >
> > True, but you don't *have* to do it this way. Perhaps some sort of
> > circular architecture -- put all the participants in a "ring" -- each
> > participant sends a message only to the next one on the ring which will
> > forward the message to the next and so on and so forth until the person
> > who sits before the one who sent the message gets it.
> > Anyway, P2P has lots of NAT-traveling problems.
> 
> Yep but there are ways around the NAT problem in the majority of cases as
> already shown,

I would even say it's the minority of cases where NAT problems can be
solved. 

>
>  but I do like this circular p2p architecture idea for
> conferences, seems like quite a good solution if worked on to work out and
> solve any problems.
> 
> Richard
> 
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