The scale of streaming video on the Internet.

[tony at lava.net (Antonio Querubin)]

On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Jay Ashworth wrote:

> Yes, Tony, but they can't *count the connected users that way*, you see.

There are various ways to do that.  Eg. Windows Media Server can log
multicast Windows Media Clients.

> For my part, as someone who used to run a small edge network, what I wonder
> is this: is there a multicast repeater daemon of some sort, where I can put
> it on my edge, and have it catch any source requested by an inside user and
> re-multicast it to my LAN, so that my uplink isn't loaded by multiple
> connections?

You might want to take a look at AMT:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-mboned-auto-multicast-10

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