<![CDATA[Joi Ito’s Web: Real-time streaming is stupid:
I’m listening to Andrew Odlyzko giving a talk right now about why Quality of Service (QoS) and real-time streaming is stupid. He showed a slide showing that P2P and other traffic are generally transmitting files at faster speeds than their bit rates. Basically, if you cache and buffer, you can have outages in the downloads and you’ll usually be fine. I agree.
I agree, too. QoS as a value proposition goes out the window if bits can be delivered at a lower priority, which is exactly what P2P or any downloading approach (podcasting, Audible*, vlogcasting, etc.).
- Disclosure: Audible is a client.
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