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Content Networking: Architecture, Protocols, and Practice Review by W Boudville
improved content distribution?
The Web or Internet offers access to content. But if you are a publisher of content, you might face problems in effectively disseminating this; especially if high demand is anticipated. Hofmann discusses existing and proposed ways that content can be delivered to the end user.
A big problem is of course bandwidth. Sending the same context to millions of users by sending out millions of identical messages is crude. Hofman explains multicast methods that perhaps you could use. If so, they can offer dramatic savings in bandwidth.
Another problem gone into at length in the text is time sensitive content. Specifically audio, and video and instant messages to a lesser extent. Under the current Internet Protocol version 4 [ie. the Internet as we know it], there is no inherent Quality of Service possible at a low level. Workarounds are possible [sort of] at higher levels. But maybe it will take IPv6 to fully handle this problem?
Hofman also goes into the issue of peer-to-peer networks being used to distribute content. Often violating copyright. But there are certainly other uses that avoid infringement.