[140246] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Morris)
Fri May 6 09:34:45 2011
In-Reply-To: <3fcb6598-053a-4f62-9eec-6ad8ece7d55c@jennyfur.pelican.org>
Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 09:34:34 -0400
From: Charles Morris <cmorris@cs.odu.edu>
To: Tim Franklin <tim@pelican.org>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Tim Franklin <tim@pelican.org> wrote:
>> I think that George's POV -- which is also mine -- is that as the
>> world shifts, the percentage of video distribution which is
>> amenable to multicast, and not well served by unicast, is likely
>> to grow, and it would be a Good Idea to be ready for that
>> situation already when it arrives.
>
> Really? =A0If anything, I'd say quite the opposite. =A0Watching media in =
the time-slot that someone else has decided on is *so* 20th-century - I can=
't remember the last time I sat down to actively watch a programme in its o=
riginal transmission slot. =A0(As opposed to having the TV on as background=
, e.g. 15 minutes of breakfast news in the morning). =A0I guess multicast t=
o a recording application (or appliance) might work - but essentially my re=
quirement is strongly skewed towards video-on-demand.
>
> I have absolutely zero interest in sport of any kind though - I'm given t=
o understand there's quite a high demand for live viewing of that.
>
> Regards,
> Tim.
>
>
Content can still be multicasted to the edge caching servers, for
near-real-time updates,
that you then may visit/view on-demand with your favorite unicast client
Charles
