Lester Caine wrote:

> Multicast streaming would not be a lot of use if you got the punch line
> before the joke. Given that a lot of big money companies are now looking
> to use broadband to provide pay viewing I don't see any problem with
> sequential multicast. ( Roman provided the fine detail )
>
>

Could you explain how arrival order from x clients on a LAN broadcasting
independently to y servers on a LAN could possibly have deterministic
receive ordering on all servers? Probability is not your friend -- one
out of order SQL statement and the game is up.