Does the following idea exist?

When Joe Enduser clicks a button to get streaming video, the client
makes a new request, and the server sends the stream.

What if the following happened:

Joe Enduser clicks the button, and a selection table like this pops
up.

Stream Time Users
1 0:50 43
2 1:05 70
3 1:30 110
4 1:55 81

....allowing him to attach to one of the existing streams.

The streams represent the number of data flows being sent from the
source server to a nearer proxy--perhaps one in Joe Enduser's
neighborhood, servicing 10,000 people or so.

mynamehere wrote:

> When Joe Enduser clicks a button to get streaming video, the client
> makes a new request, and the server sends the stream.
>
> What if the following happened:
>
> Joe Enduser clicks the button, and a selection table like this pops
> up.
>
> Stream Time Users
> 1 0:50 43
> 2 1:05 70
> 3 1:30 110
> 4 1:55 81
>
> ...allowing him to attach to one of the existing streams.
>
> The streams represent the number of data flows being sent from the
> source server to a nearer proxy--perhaps one in Joe Enduser's
> neighborhood, servicing 10,000 people or so.

The nearest thing I know of is BitTorrent (--> Google ;-), which
distributes a large file by splitting it into chunks and getting the
downloading peers to upload to each other, thus saving bandwidth on the
part of the server and passing the load to the clients. Scales well.

HTH, I'm not sure if it does...

--
Matt


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(E-Mail Removed) (mynamehere) writes:

]When Joe Enduser clicks a button to get streaming video, the client
]makes a new request, and the server sends the stream.

]What if the following happened:

]Joe Enduser clicks the button, and a selection table like this pops
]up.

]Stream Time Users
]1 0:50 43
]2 1:05 70
]3 1:30 110
]4 1:55 81

]...allowing him to attach to one of the existing streams.

]The streams represent the number of data flows being sent from the
]source server to a nearer proxy--perhaps one in Joe Enduser's
]neighborhood, servicing 10,000 people or so.

AFAIK proxies are destination linked, not source linked. Ie from a source
there is no way of knowing what the proxies are or how many people are
connected to a proxy.
Not clear this would help anyway. a separate packet has to be sent to your
machine anyway. Ie, there is no change in network congestion.

and most P2P applications does the same for file distribution using
the unutilized upload capacity of other users. it works nice with
unreliable networks .... same like bitTorrent.

raqueeb hassan
congo (drc)