Re: Review of DRM radio

Giuseppe wrote:
tony sayer <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Is it just me or does YouTube video always buffer horrendously?

This video did keep stopping and starting but Youtube usually works
okay for me.

Just think of what it will be like with millions of Internet radios
connected;!...

Couldn't unicast solve some of the congestion problems?


Presumably you mean multicast? ;-)


Also, I would
worry more about the increasingly popular video streaming...


The speed of Internet routers has followed Moore's Law religiously from 1986
up to a couple of years ago (the graph that I saw only went up to a couple
of years ago). So even if they don't follow Moore's Law going forward, you'd
still expect the speed of routers to continue to increase at a fast rate,
and it's the speed of the routers that determines the speed of the Internet
backbone, because the fibre optic cable itself can handle any speed you
throw at it (fibre optic cable has a theoretical capacity of about 10 Tbps).
And Japan and South Korea are rapidly switching over to using 100 Mbps
broadband, and the rest of the world follows whatever they do first.

So the Internet is continuing to get faster, and although as speeds increase
higher bandwidth applications become feasible when they weren't previously,
but it means that lower bandwidth applications that used to be considered
relatively difficult get easier and easier to provide, and radio streams
fall into that category, because when people were using 512k broadband, a
128 kbps radio station stream made up 25% of your connection speed, whereas
when we're on ADSL2+ or whatever it would only make up a small percentage of
the connection speed and the Internet backbone will be far faster as well.


--
Steve - www.digitalradiotech.co.uk - Digital Radio News & Info


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