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Re: The scale of streaming video on the Internet.

  • From: Seth Mattinen
  • Date: Thu Dec 02 15:39:33 2010

On 12/2/10 12:28 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> You are assuming the absence of any of the following optimizations:
> 
> 1.	Multicast

Multicast is great for simulating old school broadcasting, but I don't
see how it can apply to Netflix/Amazon style demand streaming where
everyone can potentially watch a different stream at different points in
time with different bitrates.

~Seth





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