[Nanog] ATT VP: Internet to hit capacity by 2010

Tue Apr 22 13:27:22 UTC 2008

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Joe Greco <jgreco at ns.sol.net> wrote:

>
> > As far as I am concerned the killer application for IP multicast is
> > *NOT* video, it's market data feeds from NYSE, NASDAQ, CBOT, etc.
>
> You can go compare the relative successes of Yahoo! Finance and YouTube.
>
> While it might be nice to multicast that sort of data, it's a relative
> trickle of data, and I'll bet that the majority of users have not only
> not visited a market data site this week, but have actually never done
> so.

As if most financial (and other mega-dataset) data was on consumer Web
sites. Think pricing feeds off stock exchange back-office systems.