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

[Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>]

On May 18, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Holmes,David A wrote:

> I think this shows the need for an Internet-wide multicast implementation. 

there's a pretty longtailed distribution on what people might chose to stream. static content is ameniable to 
distribution via cdn (which is frankly a degenerate form of multicast), but lets face it, how many people watched 
"Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog" in east palo alto last night at 10pm.  

> 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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