Wait until you see the traffic chart for Netflix or Google (Youtube) traffic flows at a major IX point... We're talking about N number of 100GbE connections to the peering/IX fabric switch, where N is frequently a number larger than 1.
On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 9:03 AM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> 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. >
