Re: [uknof] Current State of Multicast on the Internet?

[Mark Tinka]

On 2/Sep/19 18:48, Marek Isalski wrote:

> Isn't it all about on-demand streaming now, rather than broad-/multi-cast?  I 
> mean, who actually watches live TV these days?  It seems like building a 
> network for the future of video consumption (Millenial and Gen-Z) will need 
> CDN-type nodes as close as possible to distribution/aggregation nodes rather 
> than multicast across a backbone?

This.

The only stuff I watch on linear TV is sports and the news. Movies are
streamed, either from a streaming service or my in-house media centre.


>   Maybe multicast still has a role to play to deliver content to set-top 
> boxes...?

That's what it's doing today for IPTV service providers. Some providers
have the STB's doubling as media centres, so chances are that if the
STB's will remain in situ, much of the traffic will move from Multicast
to Unicast, over time.

Mark.