Re: The 100 Gbit/s problem in your network

[Aled Morris <aledm () qix co uk>]

"Multicast"

Aled


On 8 February 2013 13:42, Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com> wrote:

> "Akamai".
>
> The actual example is "to watch the Super Bowl". :-)
>
> fredrik danerklint <fredan-nanog () fredan se> wrote:
>
> > - Well, as it turns out, we don't have that kind of a problem.
> >
> > - You don't?
> >
> > - No, we do not have that kind of a problem in our network.
> >   We have plenty of bandwidth available to our customers,
> >   thank-you-every-much.
> >
> > - Do you have, just to make an example, about 10 000 customers
> >   in a specific area, like an city/county or part of a
> >   city/county?
> >
> > - Yes, of course!
> >
> > - Does these customers have at least 10 Mbit/s connection to the
> >   Internet?
> >
> > - Yes! Who do you think we are, like stupid! Haha!
> >
> > - Could all those 10 000 customers, just to make it theoretical,
> >   hit the 'play'-button on their Internet-connected-TV, at the same
> >   time, to watch the latest Quad-HD movie?
> >
> > - Yes. Oh wait a minute now! This is not fair! Damn. We're toast.
> >
> >
> > --
> > //fredan
>
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