[80836] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael.Dillon@radianz.com)
Fri May 13 06:12:17 2005
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To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 11:14:19 +0100
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> So imagine a residential area all pulling digital video over wireless.
> Sound familiar? Ironically close to TV! (yet so different)
Yes, so different...
Here's why: http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10462
Terabyte Firewire/USB2.0 hard drive for $979
If your network has to feed terabyte drives like that one,
would you prefer to do it with unicast or with
a combination of multicast, peer-2-peer and CDNs?
Wireless offers the possibility of cheap, simple
multicast, depending on how it is configured.
--Michael Dillon
