On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Marc Manthey wrote:
" IF we would use multicast" streaming ONLY, for appropriet content , would `nt this " decrease " the overall internet traffic ?
On one hand, the amount of content that is 'live' or 'continuous' and suitable for multicast streaming isn't s large percentage of overall internet traffic to begin with. So the effect of moving most live content to multicast on the Internet would have little overall effect. However, for some live content where the audience is either very large or concentrated on various networks, moving to multicast certainly has significant advantages in reducing traffic on the networks closest to the source or where the viewer concentration is high (particularly where the viewer numbers infrequently spikes significantly higher than the average). But network providers make their money in part by selling bandwidth. The folks who would need to push for multicast are the live/perishable content providers as they're the ones who'd benefit the most. But if bandwidth is cheap they're not really gonna care.
Isn´t this an argument for ip6 / greenip6 ;) aswell ?
It's an argument for decreasing traffic and improving network efficiency and scalability to handle 'flash crowd events'. IPv6 has nothing to do with it. Antonio Querubin whois: AQ7-ARIN _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list NANOG@nanog.org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog