[140049] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Fri Apr 29 15:46:00 2011
Date: 29 Apr 2011 19:44:40 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20110429191459.GH28613@virtual.bogons.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>Delivering multicast to end users is fundamentally not hard. The
>biggest issue seems to be with residential CPE (pretty much the same
>problem as IPv6, really).
Well, more than that, since I don't really want my DSL pipe saturated
with TV that I'm not watching, you need some way for the CPE to tell
the ISP "send me stream N"
I suppose with some sort of spanning three thing it'd even be posssible
to do that at multuple levels, so the streams are only fed to people
who have clients for it.
R's,
John
