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With a simple and lean signaling p2p protocol, with sufficient nodes at that speed (and support of diffserv), popular live streamers with a few thousands of vie
by sylware 5y ago
With a simple and lean signaling p2p protocol, with sufficient nodes at that speed (and support of diffserv), popular live streamers with a few thousands of viewers could part from twitch/youtube and similar.
For broadcast, namely the scale above (for instance a public TV channel), if I recall properly, IPv6 has many broadcast IPs... just need the IAPs of a "telecommunication zone" (state, country, etc) to manage to work together at that level. I think IPv6 multicast is "too much" for IAPs to handle though (the whole "subscription"/"unsubscription" propagation for domestic users, not limited to CDNs only).
- sylware 5y agoDOH! Correcting myself in the use case of a public TV channel, IP broadcast does not help here (would generate traffic for no users), only IP multicast would handle it properly. Namely, under the authority of the "local" telecommunication regulator, multicast IPs would be statically allocated for all IAPs to provide to users, and not only CDNs, efficiently distributing content like public TV channels (for a public TV channel, probably a high bandwidth IP and a low bandwidth IP, etc). I don't know the real reasons why this is not done, the IP multicast "subscribe/unsubscribe" state machine is not robust, etc?