[133020] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The scale of streaming video on the Internet.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hotze)
Fri Dec 3 12:06:51 2010
From: Martin Hotze <M.Hotze@hotze.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 17:06:46 +0000
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> Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 10:47:44 -0500
> From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
> Subject: Re: The scale of streaming video on the Internet.
> To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
(...)
> But there's a third mechanism worth considering as well: the caching
> proxy.
IMHO it is a waste of bandwidth to use IP/network-based infrastructure for =
stuff like unidirectional data - like distributing a movie (on demand or sc=
heduled). In this case nothing beats a satellite transponder and a dish, al=
so cost-wise.
#m
