Wow....

From: Simon Westlake 
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 10:09 AM
To: [email protected] 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 'splain me sumptin

Nope, it is all unicast! Big pipes.


On 1/25/2017 11:03 AM, Chuck McCown wrote:

  I have never understood how you can set up a streaming server and deliver 
hundreds or thousands of streams without having our upstream BW be stream BW X 
# of streams.� Each stream has its own session, right?� 
  �
  So with folks watching the coronation via CNN streaming, CNN cannot possibly 
have a pipe large enough to give each user its own BW.
  �
  I understand how simple this is with multicast, but I have always presumed 
that multicast does not traverse the public internet?� Hard enough to get it 
to work flawless internally with IPTV.� 
  �
  There is probably some kind of UDP broadcast type of thing that I have just 
been unaware of.� 


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