Karim Saouli wrote:
While it takes a lot to make me come out of the comfort of my silence, I must be missing something in this flamefest...the dude is only asking if you could help him to have other streaming servers around if I am not mistaking.
Sure. Unfortunately he asked with the wrong source, which is not his mistake.
Is your problem to have one stream coming into your network or having a few hundreds of streams coming into your network?
I don't bother how many streams come into our backbone, but I do bother where they come from.
Serviceing only our access customers won't help much, I guess, because Daniele won't be happy if I eat up one of his valued streams and serving noone else behind the relay ("pseudo multicast").
IMNSHO, the first one is preferable to many other, weither you like the "other" sponsor of the project...and well afterall it's up to your management to outsponsor their rival...
Sure. Our management has said "no" :-(
F.