Most of the companies that do that work with caching companies like Akamai although I think ESPN simply has servers everywhere. As fast as they are, I wouldn’t be surprised if my next door neighbor is hosting one.
Rory From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: Monday, February 6, 2017 7:03 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 'splain me sumptin Agreed. CNN (well, their CDN partners) just have that much capacity. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions<http://www.ics-il.com/> [http://www.ics-il.com/images/fbicon.png]<https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/googleicon.png]<https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/linkedinicon.png]<https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/twittericon.png]<https://twitter.com/ICSIL> Midwest Internet Exchange<http://www.midwest-ix.com/> [http://www.ics-il.com/images/fbicon.png]<https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/linkedinicon.png]<https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/twittericon.png]<https://twitter.com/mdwestix> The Brothers WISP<http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> [http://www.ics-il.com/images/fbicon.png]<https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/youtubeicon.png] <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> ________________________________ From: "Seth Mattinen" <se...@rollernet.us<mailto:se...@rollernet.us>> To: af@afmug.com<mailto: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
