Re: [LINK] The DVD is not dead!

On 12 February 2016 at 11:24, Scott Howardwrote: ISP-level caching hasn't been a viable system for saving any real level of > bandwidth for at least 10 years. Didn't realize that. They still seem to use it. Does that mean they could ditch it, or is it still cost effective, if marginal over all?

Re: [LINK] The DVD is not dead!

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Avi Miller wrote: > Actually, Netflix are quite happy to put a storage node at an ISP: > My point was that it only works when it's driven by the content provider (Netflix, Akamai, Cloudflare, etc), not when it's driven by the ISP. ISP

Re: [LINK] The DVD is not dead!

> On 12 Feb 2016, at 11:42 AM, Scott Howard wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Avi Miller wrote: > Actually, Netflix are quite happy to put a storage node at an ISP: > > My point was that it only works when it's driven by the content provider

Re: [LINK] The DVD is not dead!

Satellite was never going to be a longterm solution. Those who thought otherwise were selling/sold the Brooklyn Bridge. Jan At 09:24 AM 12/02/2016, David Boxall you wrote: >Data limits on Sky Muster are so restrictive that streaming video is not >practical. Short of illegal downloads during