[110879] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Inauguration streaming traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Butterworth)
Wed Jan 21 10:24:41 2009
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:24:31 GMT
From: Brandon Butterworth <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> The Beeb's HD multicast feed is about 23Mbit/s to the host, and we received
> it at quite decent (subjective) quality here on a JANET-connected university
> site.
This is full broadcast HD, exactly the same as we have on satellite.
We don't consider it generally usable, it's part of IPTV services not
general Internet distribution.
I expect we'll make a 1.5Mbit/s stream, not really HD just what people
flog as Internet HD, some time.
> The interesting aspect of the HD stream was seeing how various systems coped
> with the CPU load. It was good to have some HD content available that
> encouraged people to install vlc, find out a little about multicast, and
> system issues in receiving it.
That's why I leave it there but unpublicised as users would try getting
it down their adsl and annoy their ISP.
> Thanks again Beeb :)
/me doffs cap
brandon
