The 100 Gbit/s problem in your network

Tue Feb 12 05:07:12 UTC 2013

That's not the general case, however. That's a set of specialized videos where
you know you will have a large number of consumers at each site viewing the
same video content.

Owen

On Feb 11, 2013, at 20:46 , Ryan Malayter <malayter at gmail.com> wrote:

> You're missing the entire point: all web caches *already* work with
> DASH and the proprietary HTTP chunking flavors. It's just HTTP request/response
> data.
> 
> My employer's statistics show this to be true; we do video for
> compliance training
> and we see massive benefit from local caches in our customer's
> networks. We send a cache-enabled customer site each video chunk just
> about once on average, and their cache takes care of distribution to
> up to thousands of internal viewers.
> 
> HTTP chunk streaming works today with Silverlight/Flash/Quicktime
> plugins, and there is a working prototype of the standardized DASH
> that use only an modern web browser and JavaScript with no plug-ins:
> http://dash-mse-test.appspot.com/dash-player.html