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Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 19:33:24 -0500 (EST)
On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, Andrew Odlyzko wrote:
P.S. I have been puzzled by the fixation on streaming for over a decade.
Is there really a much of a difference between streaming and buffering? Is XM radio streaming or buffering?Is TiVo streaming or buffering? Is AMC Theatres streaming or buffering?
Is RSS feeds streaming or buffering?Geeks like to debate it, but the difference is mostly one of degrees not a bright line. Usually the data is processed multiple ways. A security camera may be both a linear stream and a random access buffer. A movie
theatre may download a digital movie via satellite file broadcast but play it as a linear event at pre-determined times.True believers may like to think there is only one true answer. But it is probably more realistic that the network will need to support multiple different ways of accomplishing the same thing because different people will want to do the same thing different ways.
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- Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?, (continued)
- Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously? Thomas Leavitt (Jan 10)
- Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously? Marshall Eubanks (Jan 10)
- Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously? Stephen Sprunk (Jan 11)
- Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously? Sean Donelan (Jan 13)
- Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously? Mike Leber (Jan 13)
- Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously? Mikael Abrahamsson (Jan 13)
- Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously? Adrian Chadd (Jan 06)
- Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously? Sean Donelan (Jan 06)
- Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously? Michael . Dillon (Jan 07)
- Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously? Will Hargrave (Jan 07)
- Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously? Sam Stickland (Jan 10)
- Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously? Patrick W. Gilmore (Jan 07)
- Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously? Joe Abley (Jan 07)
- Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously? Gian Constantine (Jan 07)
- RE: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously? Bora Akyol (Jan 08)