Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Google's Vint Cerf, 'Father of the Internet': "Online Video Will Be Distributed in Download Mode"

Source: href="http://www.beet.tv/2008/06/googles-vint-ce.html
24 Jun 2008
Short Summary:
Vint Cerf, a computer scientist who is most often called the "father of the Internet," says that the popularity and demand for online video will mean that the distribution will eventually be done "in download mode," not streaming, which is pervasive today.

Intercast Feedback:
24 Jun 2008
Author: Noam Bardin, Intercast Networks CEO
Vint is basically arguing for video being pre-delivered to cheap storage with multicasting as the scalable delivery protocol - a perfect description of our Multicast-to-Storage (M2S) application.

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