[132920] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The scale of streaming video on the Internet.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Antonio Querubin)
Thu Dec 2 17:32:02 2010
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 12:31:54 -1000 (HST)
From: Antonio Querubin <tony@lava.net>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
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Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> Yes, Tony, but they can't *count the connected users that way*, you see.
There are various ways to do that. Eg. Windows Media Server can log
multicast Windows Media Clients.
> 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?
You might want to take a look at AMT:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-mboned-auto-multicast-10
Antonio Querubin
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