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Re: The scale of streaming video on the Internet.


From: Marshall Eubanks <tme () americafree tv>
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 22:05:40 -0500


On Dec 2, 2010, at 5:31 PM, Antonio Querubin wrote:

On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Jay Ashworth wrote:

Yes, Tony, but they can't *count the connected users that way*, you see.

There are various ways to do that.  Eg. Windows Media Server can log
multicast Windows Media Clients.

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?

You might want to take a look at AMT:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-mboned-auto-multicast-10

Correct. That is exactly the problem AMT is intended to solve.

Regards
Marshall



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