[140053] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Durack)
Fri Apr 29 16:40:55 2011
In-Reply-To: <4DBB0D68.40108@bogus.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:40:45 -0400
From: Tim Durack <tdurack@gmail.com>
To: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com> wrote:
> On 4/29/11 10:12 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>
> It turns out that as a content provider you can unicast video delivery
> without coordinating the admission of your content onto every edge
> eyeball network on the planet. It's cheap enough that it makes money on
> fairly straght-forward internet business models and it apparently scales
> to meet the needs of justin beiber fans.
>
>
Imagine: multicast internet radio! Awesome!
I have a feeling streaming is going to stay unicast.
Multicast is a great technical solution in search of a good business problem.
--
Tim:>
