[132915] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The scale of streaming video on the Internet.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Thu Dec 2 17:09:49 2010
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 17:08:39 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.00.1012021137220.222@cust11794.lava.net>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Antonio Querubin" <tony@lava.net>
>
> On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> > Oh: and all the extra servers and switches necessary to set that up?
>
> > *Way* more power than the equivalent transmitters and TV sets. Even
> > if you add in the cable headends, I suspect.
>
> Have you heard of multicast? :)
Yes, Tony, but they can't *count the connected users that way*, you see.
For my part, as someone who used to run a small edge network, what I wonder
is this: is there a multicast repeater daemon of some sort, where I can put
it on my edge, and have it catch any source requested by an inside user and
re-multicast it to my LAN, so that my uplink isn't loaded by multiple
connections?
Or do I need to take the Multicast class again? :-)
Cheers,
-- jra
