[140079] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey S. Young)
Sat Apr 30 05:13:22 2011
In-Reply-To: <20110429194440.36991.qmail@joyce.lan>
From: "Jeffrey S. Young" <young@jsyoung.net>
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 19:13:09 +1000
To: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 30/04/2011, at 5:44 AM, "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
>> 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
Or your set top box... multicast joins from STB to DSLAM aren't so hard.
AT&T U-Verse has been doing it for more than five years now.
jy
