[160264] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Bulk)
Sun Feb 3 00:27:20 2013
From: "Frank Bulk" <frnkblk@iname.com>
To: "'Owen DeLong'" <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <0D7538BB-C96D-4030-8C4C-0CD2282922E3@delong.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 23:25:31 -0600
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Live TV still makes up the majority of video viewing.
http://www.thecab.tv/main/bm~doc/multiscreeninsights-2q12-p.pdf
Multicasting video remains a valuable video distribution technique.
Frank
-----Original Message-----
From: Owen DeLong [mailto:owen@delong.com]
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 9:53 PM
To: Jean-Francois Mezei
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?
On Feb 1, 2013, at 14:17 , Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>
wrote:
<snip>
> If you have multicast and everyone is watching superbowl at same time,
> you're talking up very little bandwidth on that 2.mumble GPON link.
Meh. Since everyone seems to want to be able to pause, rewind, etc.,
multicast doesn't tend to happen so much even in the IPTV world these
days.
Owen
