[94145] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Wed Jan 10 13:11:25 2007
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:07:45 +0200
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
Cc: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <88CD56D1-812B-4B74-8E63-605F6257A2A8@multicasttech.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> Actually, this is true with unicast as well.
>
> This can (I think) largely be handled by a fairly moderate amount of
> Forward Error Correction.
>
> Regards
> Marshall
Before "streaming" meant HTTP-like protocols over port 80 and UDP was
actually used, we did some experiments with FEC and discovered that
reasonable interleaving (so that two consequtive packets lost could be
recovered) and 1:10 FEC resulted in zero-loss environment in all cases
we tested.
Pete
