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Re:High Speed Networking: Open Sourcing our Kernel Bypass Work by jgalar on Thursday May 03, 2018 @11:43AM (#16986982)
I would guess cable video is multicasted once to many customers while online streaming has to be served one-to-one.

From the viewer's standpoint, the bandwidth usage is roughly the same, but the broadcaster and CDNs have a lot more data to deliver.

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Re:High Speed Networking: Open Sourcing our Kernel Bypass Work by ajanuary on Thursday May 03, 2018 @11:54AM (#16987066)
There is an awful lot of data that is routed around internally before you hit transmission. That's more what's being talked about here, not delivering the video to viewers.
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