[140175] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Wed May 4 12:07:18 2011
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 12:04:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <2488B066-C050-42EA-8DC5-D51AB220457E@jsyoung.net>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeffrey S. Young" <young@jsyoung.net>
> I think it's elegant, in think Deering did an incredible job to
> create it and some many years ago I played a role to bring
> multicast to the Internet at large. I believed that multicast
> would play a huge role in the delivery of content, then.
>
> Trouble was that the way that people want to consume
> video means most of it is time-shifted. Folks in charge of
> networks didn't understand the technology and marketing
> people thought turning on multicast meant giving something
> away. I finally settled on the notion that multicast is a tool
> for service providers/enterprises to use but that it wouldn't
> ever be as pervasive as I'd hoped.
I think that George's POV -- which is also mine -- is that as the world
shifts, the percentage of video distribution which is amenable to multicast,
and not well served by unicast, is likely to grow, and it would be a Good
Idea to be ready for that situation already when it arrives.
Cheers,
-- jra
