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IPTV services are usually based on multicast and seem to work quite efficiently. But it's obviously useless for services like Netflix/Youtube/etc. because you h
by opencl 8y ago
IPTV services are usually based on multicast and seem to work quite efficiently. But it's obviously useless for services like Netflix/Youtube/etc. because you have to be sending the same content to everyone at the same time.
- zzzcpan 8y agoNo, multicast for IPTV is not cost efficient for ISPs. I don't think there was ever a time when multicast was anything more than hardware vendors trying to profit off of ISPs with broken promises of efficiency.