[94109] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Tue Jan 9 22:05:58 2007
To: Gian Constantine <constantinegi@corp.earthlink.net>
Cc: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>,
Thomas Leavitt <thomas@thomasleavitt.org>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Jan 2007 11:29:32 EST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:02:26 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 11:29:32 EST, Gian Constantine said:
> If you considered my previous posts, you would know I agree streaming
> is scary on a large scale, but unicast streaming is what I reference.
> Multicast streaming is the real solution. Ultimately, a global
> multicast network is the only way to deliver these services to a
> large market.
Multicast streaming may be a big win when you're only streaming the top
5 or 10 networks (for some value of 5 or 10). What's the performance
characteristics if you have 300K customers, and at any given time, 10%
are watching something from the "long tail" - what's the difference between
handling 30K unicast streams, and 30K multicast streams that each have only
one or at most 2-3 viewers?
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