[104023] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [Nanog] ATT VP: Internet to hit capacity by 2010
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexander Harrowell)
Tue Apr 22 09:28:19 2008
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:27:22 +0100
From: "Alexander Harrowell" <a.harrowell@gmail.com>
To: "Joe Greco" <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
In-Reply-To: <200804221302.m3MD268o026939@aurora.sol.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> wrote:
>
> > As far as I am concerned the killer application for IP multicast is
> > *NOT* video, it's market data feeds from NYSE, NASDAQ, CBOT, etc.
>
> You can go compare the relative successes of Yahoo! Finance and YouTube.
>
> While it might be nice to multicast that sort of data, it's a relative
> trickle of data, and I'll bet that the majority of users have not only
> not visited a market data site this week, but have actually never done
> so.
As if most financial (and other mega-dataset) data was on consumer Web
sites. Think pricing feeds off stock exchange back-office systems.
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