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Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

  • From: Douglas Otis
  • Date: Tue Jan 09 15:11:06 2007


On Jan 9, 2007, at 7:17 PM, Fergie wrote:
Gian Constantine <[email protected]> wrote:

If demand for variety in service provider selection grows with the proliferation of IPTV, we may see the required motivation for inter-AS multicast, which places us in a position moving to the large multicast space available in IPv6.

I don't think I'd be hanging my hat on IPv6 operational frobs at this moment in time.

This might be sooner than you think. Microsoft has already begun introduction of PNRP. This is a peer-to-peer distribution technology for encapsulating IPv6 within IPv4. It also works through IPv6 gateways (not included by Microsoft). The frobs would be any Vista or XP box running this protocol allowing a new type of multicast to exist (a proprietary one at that). Perhaps that might explain the non-partisan computing bill-boards. : )

Singapore is restricting bandwidth on bittorrent, so one might wonder whether the same response is possible with this technology should it prove problematic. With many announcing the onset of Web 3.0, 10 mbit connectivity would suggest sustained data rates at this level should not be a problem. Photons are cheaper than physical media. The question might be whether Ethernet can handle media delivered on- demand over IP.

-Doug