[140218] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Lor=E1nd_Jakab?=)
Thu May 5 11:36:40 2011
Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 17:36:03 +0200
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Lor=E1nd_Jakab?= <ljakab@ac.upc.edu>
To: Jeff Young <young@jsyoung.net>
In-Reply-To: <AF1A5103-1060-4BBE-B180-F3079A57714B@jsyoung.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On 05/05/11 00:15, Jeff Young wrote:
> The most ambitious use of multicast I'm aware of is AT&T's UVerse
> network which multicasts (SS) from two
> head-ends all the way to the set top box in a home. But this is
> confined to the AT&T network and UVerse is
> arguably a "me-too" offering to compete with Time Warner Cable and others.
Telefonica has a similar multicast deployment in its Spanish network,
marketed as Imagenio, so this proves that multicast can be quite useful
within a provider's own network. Too bad the economic incentives are not
so clear/inexistent for transit networks.
-Lorand Jakab
>
> jy
