[94101] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet Video: The Next Wave of Massive Disruption to the US Peer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie)
Tue Jan 9 15:22:27 2007
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 19:30:49 GMT
To: bill.norton@gmail.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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- -- "William B. Norton" <bill.norton@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 1/9/07, Fergie <fergdawg@netzero.net> wrote:
>
>> I think it remains to be seen that that model will actually change
>> dramatically to more of a "semi- real-time" model, regardless of
>> the desires (or fears) of various vendors or operators.
>
>Hmm...I should have been more clear. I'm comparing the options a video
>guy has : buy transit to distribute the videos, buy CDN services, buy
>a mix or transit and peering, or use P2P. I have sample configurations
>and cost models for each, and cost them in units of $/video
>distributed for side to side comparison.
>
>From the reviews and discussions it was interesting how entrenched and
>enraged some people became when the p2p distribution model costed out
>to be the cheapest by far:
>
Well, cost issues speak for themselves.
Adoption issues, of course, are another issue entirely. :-)
- - ferg
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Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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