[140247] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Helms)
Fri May 6 09:58:35 2011
Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 09:58:14 -0400
From: Scott Helms <khelms@ispalliance.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikoqLp39y_BHRFm7Ksj2hzDSxAbTg@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Absolutely, multicast inside of a provider network is critical for
feeding local caches. This is a common approach in IPTV networks
supporting VOD via multiple headends.
> 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
>
>
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