[104161] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [NANOG] would ip6 help us safeing energy ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Antonio Querubin)
Sun Apr 27 17:35:18 2008
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:35:10 -1000 (HST)
From: Antonio Querubin <tony@lava.net>
To: Marc Manthey <marc@let.de>
In-Reply-To: <B4A5F6C3-59E0-418E-9614-0420ED8E60EA@let.de>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Marc Manthey wrote:
> i am not a math genious and i am talking about for example serving
>
> 10.000 unicast streams and
> 10.000 multicast streams
>
> would the multicast streams more efficient or lets say , would you
> need more machines to server 10.000 unicast streams ?
For 10000 concurrent unicast streams you'd need not just more servers.
You'd need a significantly different network infrastructure than something
that would have to handle only a single multicast stream.
But supporting multicast isn't without it's own problems either. Even the
destination networks would have to consider implementing IGMP and/or MLD
snooping in their layer 2 devices to obtain maximum benefit from
multicast.
Antonio Querubin
whois: AQ7-ARIN
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