22 Mar
2020
22 Mar
'20
6:19 p.m.
It failed to scale for some of the exact same reasons QoS failed to scale - what works inside one administrative domain doesn't work once it crosses domain boundaries.
Plus, there's a lot more state to keep - if you think spanning tree gets ugly if the tree gets too big, think about what happens when the multicast covers 3,000 people in 117 ASN's, with people from multiple ASN's joining and leaving every few seconds.
add to that it is the TV model in a VOD world. works for sports, maybe, not for netflix randy