[140757] 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 17:30:17 2011
In-Reply-To: <4DD431B6.3030402@2mbit.com>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 17:27:37 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Brielle Bruns <bruns@2mbit.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Brielle Bruns <bruns@2mbit.com> wrote:
> 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. =A0Their
>> selection
>> sucks, but the model is valid.
>
>
>
> If someone hadn't mentioned already, there used to be a usenet provider t=
hat
> delivered a full feed via Satellite. =A0Anything is feasible, just have t=
o
doug went out of that business, it wasn't (apparently) actually viable.
