Not always. I just heard about two cool methods the other day. One uses a single input switch port and then port mirroring.
Another method was actually outbound in-rack GPON and letting the hardware layer itself do the replication to multiple local servers, then from those outward to geographic distribution nodes. On Jan 25, 2017 11:09 AM, "Simon Westlake" <simon@sonar.software> wrote: > Nope, it is all unicast! Big pipes. > > On 1/25/2017 11:03 AM, Chuck McCown 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.� > > > -- > Simon Westlake > Email: simon@sonar.software > Phone: (702) 447-1247 > --------------------------- > Sonar Software Inc > The future of ISP billing and OSShttps://sonar.software > >
