[140238] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Thu May 5 15:49:39 2011
Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 15:47:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Wheeler" <jsw@inconcepts.biz>
> There are certainly things that need work before I can start up Jeff's
> Internet Movie Channel and go into competition with HBO, but for the
> most part, these are solvable if networks decided to do it. The big
> limitation is there can't be infinite groups -- FIB is only so big and
> there is no agreeable mechanism for sharing the number that can be
> made to exist, given current (and foreseeable) routers. Since so many
> "eyeballs" are sitting on ISPs that also own television networks and
> other media properties, though, I don't think we will get multicast
> anytime soon.
Unless (what I assert is) Google's plan to engender muni fiber last-mile
really catches fire -- at which point it will become logistically practical
for people like Chris Adams to compete with people like Road Runner... and
you'll have your end-user transport.
Bet me cash Google City will be multicast capable.
Cheers
-- jra
