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title feels a little misleading. the best way to not have your cost scale is probably to do what spotify is doing - make every user into a peer in a bit-torren
by gustaf 17y ago
title feels a little misleading.
the best way to not have your cost scale is probably to do what spotify is doing - make every user into a peer in a bit-torrent network and have them share the vast majority of the bandwidth consumption
A Glance at Spotify's Peer-to-peer Streaming:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=3&ved=0CBEQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ietf.org%2Fmeeting%2F75%2Fp2p-presentations%2Fdocuments%2Fspotify-gunnar-kreitz.pdf&ei=fuPYSue3BJTCsQOCwpGyCQ&usg=AFQjCNGSfDf_xcyc6fi2l24khllPSmv2_Q&sig2=3NeObomiQH5tlwp5--SR-g http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&...
- mrkurt 17y agoI dunno if that's the best way. If you're large enough to make your own infrastructure worthwhile, I suspect that's way more robust than a relatively complex end user p2p setup.
- lsb 17y agoYup, Skype had that half a decade ago. Problem is that if there's a big Windows update that everyone installs, a large portion of your network goes down.