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I would guess cable video is multicasted once to many customers while online streaming has to be served one-to-one. From the viewer's standpoint, the bandwidth

by jgalar 8y ago

I would guess cable video is multicasted once to many customers while online streaming has to be served one-to-one. From the viewer's standpoint, the bandwidth usage is roughly the same, but the broadcaster and CDNs have a lot more data to deliver.

ajanuary 8y ago
There is an awful lot of data that is routed around internally before you hit transmission. That's more what's being talked about here, not delivering the video to viewers.