‘Multicast is dead – long live multicast’ reads the title of a session on the conference agenda at this year’s Connected Delivery Summit – one that draws nervous laughter from attendees during its introduction on stage in Boston. While this was only Faultline’s third appearance at a physical Streaming Media event, we imagine the existential question around multicast technology is one that has prevailed since the inaugural East and West coast events, way back in 2005. Panelists talked at length on the history of multicast, while touching briefly on what really matters – the future of multicast, if any. Save for Nokia’s Keith Chow, Senior Product Manager for IP Networks, who plucked some figures from the air claiming that the…