[160578] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The 100 Gbit/s problem in your network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (joel jaeggli)
Fri Feb 8 12:41:29 2013
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:41:00 -0800
From: joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20130208170208.GA28509@pob.ytti.fi>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2/8/13 9:02 AM, Saku Ytti wrote:
> On (2013-02-08 14:15 +0000), Aled Morris wrote:
>
>> "Multicast"
> I don't see multicast working in Internet scale.
>
> Essentially multicast means core is flow-routing. So we'd need some way to
> decide who gets to send their content as multicast and who are forced to
> send unicast.
The market already ruled on who gets to insert MSDP state in your
routers. inter-domain multicast to the extent that it exists is
between consenting adults.
Which is fine, it turns out we don't need it for youtube or justin.tv to
exist, and I don't need to signal into the core of the internet to make
my small group conferencing app work.
> It could create de-facto monopolies, as new entries to the market wont have
> their multicast carried, they cannot compete pricing wise with established
> players who are carried.
>
