Re: The scale of streaming video on the Internet.

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Dec 2, 2010, at 2:08 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Antonio Querubin" <tony () lava net>
> >
> > On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> > > Oh: and all the extra servers and switches necessary to set that up?
> >
> > > *Way* more power than the equivalent transmitters and TV sets. Even
> > > if you add in the cable headends, I suspect.
> >
> > Have you heard of multicast? :)
>
> Yes, Tony, but they can't *count the connected users that way*, you see.
Sure you can.

> For my part, as someone who used to run a small edge network, what I wonder 
> is this: is there a multicast repeater daemon of some sort, where I can put
> it on my edge, and have it catch any source requested by an inside user and
> re-multicast it to my LAN, so that my uplink isn't loaded by multiple 
> connections?

Sounds like you are describing a rendezvous point, but, perhaps I am
misunderstanding your intent.

Owen