The 100 Gbit/s problem in your network

Saku Ytti saku at ytti.fi
Fri Feb 8 17:02:08 UTC 2013


On (2013-02-08 14:15 +0000), Aled Morris wrote:

> "Multicast"

I don't see multicast working in Internet scale.

Essentially multicast means core is flow-routing. So we'd need some way to
decide who gets to send their content as multicast and who are forced to
send unicast.
It could create de-facto monopolies, as new entries to the market wont have
their multicast carried, they cannot compete pricing wise with established
players who are carried.

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