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I'm actually kind of surprised serving media isn't trivial and solved yet. Routers have ASIC switching, why can't we have dedicated cache appliances with a bun

I'm actually kind of surprised serving media isn't trivial and solved yet. Routers have ASIC switching, why can't we have dedicated cache appliances with a bunch of RAM and some kind of modified GPU with network access and crypto acceleration in each core?

saq7 2y ago
Humorous
zokier 2y ago
Have you seen Netflix OCAs? Current off-the-shelf hardware goes really long way https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/appliances/ https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/appliances/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32519881 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32519881