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Re:The tech behind building an independent, internet radio s... by detaro on Sunday September 22, 2019 @05:16PM (#21044015)
Some ISP-run and or company/network-internal ones do, but over the public internet there is no infrastructure for that, so the vast majority doesn't do it.
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Re:The tech behind building an independent, internet radio s... by yusyusyus on Sunday September 22, 2019 @05:55PM (#21044226)
funny enough.. my team probably killed off (one of anyway) the last tier 1 internet multicast deployments over the past few years.

Multicast has dataplane resource scaling issues and, frankly, CDN has become the solution to what multicast solves.

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