Comments on: Live Cricket, Soccer and more using SopCast http://www.lucidtips.com/2008/04/05/live-cricket-soccer-and-more-using-sopcast/ Easily understood tips that make your computing experience easier Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:06:10 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Pete Johnson http://www.lucidtips.com/2008/04/05/live-cricket-soccer-and-more-using-sopcast/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Pete Johnson Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:03:15 +0000 http://www.lucidtips.com/2008/04/05/live-cricket-soccer-and-more-using-sopcast/#comment-8 I can't say that I miss live cricket (having never watched it int the first place), but this is an interesting approach to the bandwidth problem. You see this kind of thing with NetMeeting or network video gaming as well: one node on the network acts as a hub for all other nodes and the overall experience is limited by connection speeds to and the performance of that single point. It would be interesting to look under the hood of this and see how the whole data stream gets propagated or even what algorithm is used to decide who gets connected where in the P2P. Great find! Pete Johnson HP.com Chief Architect Personal blog: http://nerdguru.net I can’t say that I miss live cricket (having never watched it int the first place), but this is an interesting approach to the bandwidth problem. You see this kind of thing with NetMeeting or network video gaming as well: one node on the network acts as a hub for all other nodes and the overall experience is limited by connection speeds to and the performance of that single point.

It would be interesting to look under the hood of this and see how the whole data stream gets propagated or even what algorithm is used to decide who gets connected where in the P2P.

Great find!

Pete Johnson
HP.com Chief Architect
Personal blog: http://nerdguru.net

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