On 27/01/2008, at 2:23 PM, Dean Pemberton wrote:
Yep - this was highlighted in the recent InternetNZ report on peering.
That local traffic rates (as opposed to national or international only rates) were needed if rich media was no to be stiffled within NZ.
Certainly good (public/private, paid/free) peering, combined with application-layer multicast can be a good solution for avoiding the transport and handover of large volumes of streaming traffic. A basic inter-provider CDN can be achieved with appropriate network traffic routing, and suitably placed service boxes. The service boxes can perform a stream forwarding and/or splitting function so that single copies of streams can be transported to a location close to the eyeballs, then split out. Last time I looked, much of the R2 stuff was done using Windows Media servers, which can do this sort of thing for live traffic. -- rik