Agreed. CNN (well, their CDN partners) just have that much capacity.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Seth Mattinen" <se...@rollernet.us> To: af@afmug.com Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 11:19:47 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 'splain me sumptin On 1/25/17 09:03, 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. No multicast. Big pipes and/or CDN. ~Seth
