On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Corey Touchet <[email protected]> wrote: > 14 years at Verizon Wireless and I despised the crop of multicast products > that seemed to pop up from time to time. [...] Content > delivery systems moving the content closer to edge customers makes this > less of a problem as well. [...] > Torrent style distribution appears to be particularly effective as long as > you can maintain a pool of users to distribute the content.
Hi Corey, Would it be fair to say that: Unicast delivery from distributed caches (e.g. CDNs, Content Delivery Networks) and/or unicast peer to peer transfer is more effective in nearly all applications where interdomain multicast routing is a candidate solution? If that's true, would it be useful for ISPs to build some kind of generalized multi-layer streaming cache system that any end-user application could make use of? Build caching into the system's capabilities instead of it being hit or miss depending on who pays for a CDN? Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin ................ [email protected] [email protected] Owner, Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/> Can I solve your unusual networking challenges?
