On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Joe Greco <jgreco@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.
Oh, you got my point. Good. :-) This isn't a killer application for IP multicast, at least not on the public Internet. High volume bits that are not busily traversing a hundred thousand last-mile residential connections are probably not the bits that are going to pose a serious challenge for network operators, or at least, that's my take on things. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples. _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list NANOG@nanog.org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog