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0 pointsdetaro6y ago0 comments

Some ISP-run and or company/network-internal ones do, but over the public internet there is no infrastructure for that, so the vast majority doesn't do it.

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yusyusyus6y ago

funny enough.. my team probably killed off (one of anyway) the last tier 1 internet multicast deployments over the past few years.

Multicast has dataplane resource scaling issues and, frankly, CDN has become the solution to what multicast solves.

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0 pointsdetaro6y ago0 comments

Some ISP-run and or company/network-internal ones do, but over the public internet there is no infrastructure for that, so the vast majority doesn't do it.

0 comments

yusyusyus6y ago

funny enough.. my team probably killed off (one of anyway) the last tier 1 internet multicast deployments over the past few years.

Multicast has dataplane resource scaling issues and, frankly, CDN has become the solution to what multicast solves.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse