The broadcasting industry generally runs parallel pipelines on completely independent infrastructure - the endpoints on either side simply take the first segment which lands. So they produce a segment (audio snippet) twice, ship it to destination over two separate paths, destination takes the first arriving and drops the second.
There’s really no way to detect a failure and shift away so fast! G > On 14 Sep 2025, at 22:28, Mike Hammett via NANOG <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I have a radio station customer who is utilizing one of those streaming > services to bring their broadcast station online. We've received a complaint > of a half dozen or so 1-second drops in connectivity over the Internet to > this streaming service in the six or so months they've been a customer. I > consider that pretty amazing service delivery. However, the customer does > not. I suspect this is a layer 8 issue, but what have your experiences been > in these kinds of situations, and what technical remedies would be available? > I don't know what sub-second failover systems exist, but I'm sure they're not > cost-effective if they do. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > Midwest-IX > http://www.midwest-ix.com > > > _______________________________________________ > NANOG mailing list > https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/D2LUMIGGNFDSHPK3AIEHBXFQV6KL7PL5/ _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ZT6WVWJVNJY3C2ZVML5PVVMS3PD7DRYU/
