[140724] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflix Is Eating Up More Of North America's Bandwidth Than Any
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorn Hetzel)
Wed May 18 16:12:45 2011
In-Reply-To: <4DD42697.6040308@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 16:09:57 -0400
From: Dorn Hetzel <dorn@hetzel.org>
To: Matt Ryanczak <ryanczak@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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> I don't see how multicast necasarily solves the netflix on-demand video
> problem. you have millions of users streaming different content at different
> times. multicast is great for the world cup but how does it solve the video
> on demand problem?
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> I suppose in theory if you have tivo-like devices at the endpoints then
they can capture popular programs at the time of multicast for later
viewing. Whether this is better than capturing the same programs over a
broadcast medium for later playback, I don't know...
