[132928] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The scale of streaming video on the Internet.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Dec 2 18:19:57 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <18800441.240.1291327719307.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 15:18:22 -0800
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Dec 2, 2010, at 2:08 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Antonio Querubin" <tony@lava.net>
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>> On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>>> Oh: and all the extra servers and switches necessary to set that up?
>>=20
>>> *Way* more power than the equivalent transmitters and TV sets. Even
>>> if you add in the cable headends, I suspect.
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>> Have you heard of multicast? :)
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> Yes, Tony, but they can't *count the connected users that way*, you =
see.
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Sure you can.
> For my part, as someone who used to run a small edge network, what I =
wonder=20
> 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=20=
> connections?
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Sounds like you are describing a rendezvous point, but, perhaps I am
misunderstanding your intent.
Owen
