[Fiware-streaming] Streaming GE

[Federico M. Facca]

Hi Denis,
sound ok with me!

Cheers,
Federico

On 25/07/12 16.51, Mischler Denis wrote:
> Federico, 
> Please give a look to http://forge.fi-ware.eu/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/fiware/index.php/FIWARE.Epic.Stream-oriented.ManagementMonitoring 
> I extended Monitoring to Manage and Monitor and included the Sw Defined Netw approache in there.
> 
> Denis
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Federico M. Facca [mailto:federico.facca at create-net.org] 
> Sent: mercredi 25 juillet 2012 15:05
> To: Mischler Denis
> Subject: Streaming GE
> 
> Dear Denis,
> I am not bringing this to the discussion in the call, since I was not
> involved so far and it would be rather awkward to step-in directly.
> 
> Regarding the support to QoS of the streaming, it may be worth to
> mention Software Defined Networks approaches (e.g. OpenFlow). It is true
> that this is not yet a reality in backbones (btw Geant is already
> working on it), but this applies in many cases also to more basic
> functionalities we assume to rely on today (telcos have old equipments
> and they are not always eager to invest on replacing them), for example,
> when you send a multi-cast packet, in some point moving from a network
> to another you need specific routing devices supporting the handover of
> the multi-cast between the two networks; if the second network does not
> support it (which often happens), basically it is converted the
> streaming unicast for that network... not very efficient for sure :)
> 
> So it may be worth to understand what SDN approaches may overcome in
> this respect.
> 
> Please feel free to do whatever you feel with this comment :)
> 
> Best,
> Federico
> 


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