The scale of streaming video on the Internet.

Fri Dec 3 03:05:40 UTC 2010

On Dec 2, 2010, at 5:31 PM, Antonio Querubin wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> 
>> Yes, Tony, but they can't *count the connected users that way*, you see.
> 
> There are various ways to do that.  Eg. Windows Media Server can log
> multicast Windows Media Clients.
> 
>> 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?
> 
> You might want to take a look at AMT:
> 
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-mboned-auto-multicast-10

Correct. That is exactly the problem AMT is intended to solve.

Regards
Marshall

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