On Saturday, Jan 10, 2004, at 06:55 US/Pacific, Mike Singer wrote:

> How much is "software stack to support something like video
> over ip over ethernet is pretty expensive"?
>
> From http://www.aegi.com/store/netipcam.html
> Intellinet Network IP Camera $365.00
>
That makes it out to be about the same price as a typical
USB camera, plus a low-end PC clone for the SW.  Yeah,
that's about right...

And I didn't see anything in the protocol list about RSVP,
IPRTP, or any of those 'fancy' protocols.  Running ONE
ethernet camera across a 100Mbps ethernet without much
other traffic is comparitivly easy.  Try sharing your 10M
ethernet with a bunch of other peripherals and the video
camera (which is analogous to what USB tries to do out of
the box) and you may start to miss the extra capabilities.

BillW

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