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MBone

technology
Also known as: multicast backbone
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  • Netflix streaming service
    streaming media

    … Palo Alto Research Center, where MBone (short for “multicast backbone”) streaming technology was then being developed. To prove that MBone worked, the development team broadcast Weiser and his friends playing in June 1993. The Rolling Stones were broadcast the following year to much greater fanfare, but the rarity and expense…

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    … Palo Alto Research Center, where MBone (short for “multicast backbone”) streaming technology was then being developed. To prove that MBone worked, the development team broadcast Weiser and his friends playing in June 1993. The Rolling Stones were broadcast the following year to much greater fanfare, but the rarity and expense…

    Read More