[155491] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPV6 Anycast for streaming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Sun Aug 12 15:21:26 2012
In-Reply-To: <BDEA9DA2-2C62-421D-A740-6FDF97283ABC@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 15:20:53 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Ryan Malayter <malayter@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Ryan Malayter <malayter@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would recommend looking at CDNs however, as
> this is an area where scale does matter and you
> will find it very difficult to do this better or cheaper
> yourself.
an interesting observation.. I wonder how much something like a CDN
costs for something like the OP's usecase? I wonder if doing something
like uploading to YouTube and then letting them sort out the
streaming/locality problem is better? (also then you don't necessarily
have to run your own network stuff)
-chris
