[140737] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflix Is Eating Up More Of North America's Bandwidth Than Any
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Wed May 18 16:44:19 2011
In-Reply-To: <m2ei3v934j.wl%randy@psg.com>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 16:30:28 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: NANOG Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
>> why not permit your users to subscribe to shows/instances, stream them
>> on-demand for viewing later... and leave truly live content
>> (news/sports/etc) as is, with only the ability to pause/rewind?
>>
>> how is this different from broadcast tv today though?
>
> for some of us, the thing that is wonderful about netflix is the long
> tail. =A0my tastes are a sigma or three out.
usenet is over ->
in all seriousness, if the content was available and you could request
it be streamed to you 'sometime tomorrow' or 'sometime before Friday',
you and the other people like you coudl get serviced on a singular
'stream'. I suspect that the vast majority of content is in the 1st
sigma... and again, servicing everyone with a limited number of
multicast'd streams seems like it would be nice. even falling back to
unicast for some set of mathematically/cost-conscious examples seems
like a win here.
