[140738] 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 16:46:30 2011
In-Reply-To: <623E52CE-9FA9-4DF4-9AE6-4B79267624A1@bogus.com>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 16:31:58 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@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 Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com> wrote:
>
> On May 18, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Holmes,David A wrote:
>
>> I think this shows the need for an Internet-wide multicast implementatio=
n.
>
> there's a pretty longtailed distribution on what people might chose to st=
ream. 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.
slightly wrong question: "How many people last 'period of time' chose,
early enough, to want to watch CMTotU lastnight at 10."
if the number is greater than X, multicast it with time to deliver
before 10pm pdt start time. If it's less, unicast...
