[132940] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The scale of streaming video on the Internet.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Thu Dec 2 22:05:57 2010
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.00.1012021224280.455@cust11794.lava.net>
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 22:05:40 -0500
To: Antonio Querubin <tony@lava.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Dec 2, 2010, at 5:31 PM, Antonio Querubin wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Jay Ashworth wrote:
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>> Yes, Tony, but they can't *count the connected users that way*, you =
see.
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> There are various ways to do that. Eg. Windows Media Server can log
> multicast Windows Media Clients.
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>> 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?
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> You might want to take a look at AMT:
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> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-mboned-auto-multicast-10
Correct. That is exactly the problem AMT is intended to solve.
Regards
Marshall
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> Antonio Querubin
> 808-545-5282 x3003
> e-mail/xmpp: tony@lava.net
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