> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Joe Greco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As far as I am concerned the killer application for IP multicast is > > > *NOT* video, it's market data feeds from NYSE, NASDAQ, CBOT, etc. > > > > You can go compare the relative successes of Yahoo! Finance and YouTube. > > > > While it might be nice to multicast that sort of data, it's a relative > > trickle of data, and I'll bet that the majority of users have not only > > not visited a market data site this week, but have actually never done > > so. > > As if most financial (and other mega-dataset) data was on consumer Web > sites. Think pricing feeds off stock exchange back-office systems.
Oh, you got my point. Good. :-) This isn't a killer application for IP multicast, at least not on the public Internet. High volume bits that are not busily traversing a hundred thousand last-mile residential connections are probably not the bits that are going to pose a serious challenge for network operators, or at least, that's my take on things. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples. _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list NANOG@nanog.org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog
