http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/wr/story.html?s=v/nm/19980918/wr/video_1.html
SAN FRANCISCO (Wired) - If Congress decides to release the videotape of
President Clinton's grand jury testimony, the heavy load of video traffic could
be the biggest test yet for the Internet's infrastructure.
Christian
As you would expect, they only get the real experts to speak:
"While Bergman was confident ABCNews.com's plans to stream the video in its
entirety would go fine, Martin Hall of the IP Multicast Initiative says
the real problems would occur at the user's
end of the line.
The standard T1 connection of an Internet service provider handles a
maximum of 53 dialup connections pumping data to a user, he said, but a
54th user could cause a major problem."
While Bergman was confident ABCNews.com's plans to
stream the video in its entirety would
go fine, Martin Hall of the
IP Multicast Initiative says the real problems would occur at the
user's end of the line.
and also
Such major news events could drive home one point:
that Internet needs better ways to deal with
surges of users.
Ironic that they interviewed Martin. IPMI *is* the solution for
just this type of event. Somehow, that never made it into the article.