Re: Netflix Is Eating Up More Of North America's Bandwidth Than Any Other Company

["Jeffrey S. Young" <young () jsyoung net>]

On 19/05/2011, at 6:01 AM, "Holmes,David A" <dholmes () mwdh2o com> wrote:

> I think this shows the need for an Internet-wide multicast implementation. Although I can recall working on a product 
> that delivered satellite multicast streams (with each multicast group corresponding to individual TV stations) to 
> telco CO's. This enabled the telco to implement multicast at the edge of their networks, where user broadband clients 
> would issue multicast joins only as far as the CO. If I recall this was implemented with the old Cincinnati Bell 
> telco. I admit there are a lot of CO's and cable head-ends though for this solution to scale.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Holstein [mailto:michael.holstein () csuohio edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 12:46 PM
> To: Roy
> Cc: nanog
> Subject: Re: Netflix Is Eating Up More Of North America's Bandwidth Than Any Other Company
>
>
> > http://e.businessinsider.com/public/184962
>
> Somebody should invent a a way to stream groups of shows simultaneously
> and just arrange for people to watch the desired stream at a particular
> time. Heck, maybe even do it wireless.
>
> problem solved, right?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael Holstein
> Cleveland State University
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