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Re: Coordinated Regional Video Archiving..

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Originally Posted by Joel J. View Post
Ah.. so YouTube or Google video would be good as a complement, but should not be used as the main repository for storing all the regional video. I wonder what SOAP thinks about all of this? I would think they'd be happy to get all the regionals archived on their site. Maybe I should ask them.
At some point you run into the real problem of storage and bandwidth. Obviously the video itself would take up a lot of storage space. Not so big a deal if you're storing it on your 500GB USB hard drive at home, but that can be expensive if the storage is located on a real dedicated server on the Internet. The other problem is bandwidth. You need lots of it. In this case you really want to have a machine in a datacenter with multiple connections to the various Internet backbones that cover the US. A single T1 will not cut it. Having only a single connection to one provider will probably mean very poor download times for certain people as the data has to hop through a bunch of different networks. Of course, when you get such a server in a datacenter like this, they tend to cap the amount of data you can transfer each month. Having 100s of people downloading regional video will chew through this in a hurry!

What would be interesting would be to see if we could somehow come up with a server with plenty of storage (maybe a generous donation or maybe a bunch of teams pitch in and split the cost or something) that we could convince an institution connected with FIRST to host for us (some organization that has lots of bandwidth, like a major university or perhaps something like NASA). If we could pull off something like that maybe we could also standardize a webcasting system too (that also uses up enormous amounts of bandwidth).