[99897] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Mon Oct 8 18:36:39 2007
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 23:23:27 +0100
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
cc: michael.dillon@bt.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4708552F.6020201@bogus.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> michael.dillon@bt.com wrote:
> >
> > And P2P is the main way to reduce the overall load that video places
> > on the Internet.
>
> We could have used IP Multicast, but nobody on the consumer side wanted
> to carry state instead of packets.
Multicast works when watching broadcast TV or recordings that were
scheduled in advance, but people on the net want video on demand.
Tony.
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