End System Multicast
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End System Multicast (ESM) was a research project at Carnegie Mellon University. It developed a peercasting system for streaming live, high-quality video and audio to large audiences.
The project was founded in 1999. It was used to broadcast events online over the internet, including:[1]
- SIGCOMM 2002 and 2003, NOSSDAV 2004 and INFOCOM 2005
- John Kerry's rally at CMU in 2004
- cmuTV
- DARPA Grand Challenge in 2004
- RoboCup 2005
ESM was featured at the Intel Developer Forum in 2005.
ESM is no longer under active development by researchers at CMU. In 2006, several members of the ESM research group founded Rinera Networks in order to commercialize the ESM technology. In 2008, Rinera Networks changed its name to Conviva.[2]