No body was streaming because everyone was THERE otherwise I assume they would use a CDN service
On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 9:03 AM, Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com> 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.
