[140748] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflix Is Eating Up More Of North America's Bandwidth Than Any
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brielle Bruns)
Wed May 18 17:10:18 2011
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 14:53:10 -0600
From: Brielle Bruns <bruns@2mbit.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=BLCYGmQ5zstN_008+d5H5hd8Kxw@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 5/18/11 2:33 PM, Dorn Hetzel wrote:
> If we're really talking efficiency, the "popular" stuff should probably
> stream out over the bird of your choice (directv, etc) because it's hard to
> beat millions of dishes and dvr's and no cable plant.
>
> Then what won't fit on the bird goes unicast IP from the nearest CDN. Kind
> of like the "on demand over broadband" on my satellite box. Their selection
> sucks, but the model is valid.
If someone hadn't mentioned already, there used to be a usenet provider
that delivered a full feed via Satellite. Anything is feasible, just
have to find people who actually want/need it and a provider that isn't
blind to long term benefits.
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Brielle Bruns
The Summit Open Source Development Group
http://www.sosdg.org / http://www.ahbl.org
