APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR STREAMING CONTENT

摘要

A method of streaming content comprises the steps of receiving (401) requests from a plurality of end nodes for a particular content to be streamed to the end nodes using a unicast mode of operation, for example hyper text transfer protocol, and determining (405) whether the number of requests for the particular content has reached a threshold value. If so, the streaming of the particular content is triggered (407) to switch from the unicast mode of operation to a multicast mode of operation to the plurality of end nodes.