Transmission of high bandwidth network via a low bandwidth during the operating hours with a low capacity utilization

摘要

The present invention describes a method for transmitting high bandwidth network content on a low bandwidth communications channel during off peak hours. According to one embodiment of the present invention, criteria is determined for downloading data from the communications channel (200) and the data is downloaded from the communications channel (200) during off peak hours based on the determined criteria. According to another embodiment, a method for coordinated multicasts on a network (200) is described. Download requests are received on a server (210) from a plurality of clients on the network and stored on the server (210) for the coordinated multicast. The coordinated multicast is generated at a predetermined time and then broadcast from the server (210) to the plurality of clients at the predetermined time.