RE: The 100 Gbit/s problem in your network

I don't see a need for multicast to work in Internet scale, ever. adam -----Original Message----- From: Saku Ytti [mailto:saku@ytti.fi] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 6:02 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: The 100 Gbit/s problem in your network On (2013-02-08 14:15 +0000), Aled Morris wrote:

"Multicast"

I don't see multicast working in Internet scale. Essentially multicast means core is flow-routing. So we'd need some way to decide who gets to send their content as multicast and who are forced to send unicast. It could create de-facto monopolies, as new entries to the market wont have their multicast carried, they cannot compete pricing wise with established players who are carried. -- ++ytti