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The scale of streaming video on the Internet.

Subject: The scale of streaming video on the Internet.
From: sethm at rollernet.us (Seth Mattinen)
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 12:38:11 -0800
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On 12/2/10 12:28 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> You are assuming the absence of any of the following optimizations:
> 
> 1.	Multicast

Multicast is great for simulating old school broadcasting, but I don't
see how it can apply to Netflix/Amazon style demand streaming where
everyone can potentially watch a different stream at different points in
time with different bitrates.

~Seth

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