[132893] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The scale of streaming video on the Internet.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Thu Dec 2 15:39:23 2010
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 12:38:11 -0800
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <D75D1E46-27FF-40B0-B6B9-85539681957B@delong.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 12/2/10 12:28 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> You are assuming the absence of any of the following optimizations:
>
> 1. Multicast
Multicast is great for simulating old school broadcasting, but I don't
see how it can apply to Netflix/Amazon style demand streaming where
everyone can potentially watch a different stream at different points in
time with different bitrates.
~Seth
