[Cialug] Multicast, anyone?

[jeff at ocjtech.us]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:27 AM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
>
>>Is this traffic going across the Internet?  Might as well as forget
>>about multicast as almost no ISPs forward multicast traffic.
>
> That's the idea, .. and that's the reason for the question.
>
> If it's problematic, how do companies like Hulu do it?

It's all unicast.  Mainly they either own gigantic infrastructures of
their own (Google/Youtube) or they use content distribution networks
like Akamai.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network

-- 
Jeff Ollie