• r00ty@kbin.life
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    11 months ago

    It’s a real shame that IPv6 multicast is as IPv4’s multicast implementation (global multicast not propagated by ISPs). I feel like live streaming/live TV over the internet could have made really good use of this feature.

    It would in theory mean that they wouldn’t even need to operate their own servers in other countries/regions. One server could feed everyone.

    The problem is a real one, Netflix for example have ISP level caches so that their content isn’t streamed across the open internet when it doesn’t need to be. But in the rest of the world it’s been resolved differently. I’m honestly not sure how ISPs keep up with the backhaul requirements for an ever increasing requirement for speed.