The scale of streaming video on the Internet.

Fri Dec 3 13:04:41 UTC 2010

Unless there is robust support for it in home nat/CPE it is dead. Same for these ipv6 challenges at the edge. I am also not aware of any major networks that currently have multicast on their backbone also deploying v6mcast. Corrections to that here or privately welcome.

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On Dec 2, 2010, at 4:44 PM, Antonio Querubin <tony at lava.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, david raistrick wrote:
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>> If you, the multicast broadcaster, dont have extensive control of the -entire- end to end IP network, it will be significantly broken significant amounts of the time.
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>> ...david (former member of a team of engineers who built and maintained a 220,000 seat multicast video network)
> 
> Which points to the need for service providers to deploy robust multicast routing.
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