ulink multicast

[jzhang1]

I was wondering if ulink support IP multicast to help save bandwidth. The way I see it outgoing bandwidth is going to be a dominant cost in operating large scale MMOs, it seems multicasting might be a solution to make bandwidth costs scale linearly instead of quadratically.

[fholm]

@jzhang1

I was wondering if ulink support IP multicast to help save bandwidth. The way I see it outgoing bandwidth is going to be a dominant cost in operating large scale MMOs, it seems multicasting might be a solution to make bandwidth costs scale linearly instead of quadratically.

Not sure about uLink, but I would guess no as multicast has spotty support across the world.

[anon_57335805]

http://www.muchdifferent.com/?page=game-unitypark-products-ustream

Offloads the Unity game server by doing the heavy lifting of multicasting uLink network traffic.

So not only does it multicast, it also has tool to optimize bandwidth consumption even more.