[140731] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflix Is Eating Up More Of North America's Bandwidth Than Any
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Wed May 18 16:29:39 2011
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
In-Reply-To: <922ACC42D498884AA02B3565688AF99531DEADDC02@USEXMBS01.mwd.h2o>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 13:18:12 -0700
To: "Holmes,David A" <dholmes@mwdh2o.com>
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On May 18, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Holmes,David A wrote:
> I think this shows the need for an Internet-wide multicast =
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there's a pretty longtailed distribution on what people might chose to =
stream. static content is ameniable to distribution via cdn (which is =
frankly a degenerate form of multicast), but lets face it, how many =
people watched "Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog" in east palo =
alto last night at 10pm. =20
> Although I can recall working on a product that delivered satellite =
multicast streams (with each multicast group corresponding to individual =
TV stations) to telco CO's. This enabled the telco to implement =
multicast at the edge of their networks, where user broadband clients =
would issue multicast joins only as far as the CO. If I recall this was =
implemented with the old Cincinnati Bell telco. I admit there are a lot =
of CO's and cable head-ends though for this solution to scale.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Holstein [mailto:michael.holstein@csuohio.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 12:46 PM
> To: Roy
> Cc: nanog
> Subject: Re: Netflix Is Eating Up More Of North America's Bandwidth =
Than Any Other Company
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>> http://e.businessinsider.com/public/184962
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> Somebody should invent a a way to stream groups of shows =
simultaneously
> and just arrange for people to watch the desired stream at a =
particular
> time. Heck, maybe even do it wireless.
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> problem solved, right?
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> Cheers,
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> Michael Holstein
> Cleveland State University
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