The scale of streaming video on the Internet.

Thu Dec 2 23:18:22 UTC 2010

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

> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Antonio Querubin" <tony at 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