[167065] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DOCSIS 3.0 and Multicast
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Karn)
Fri Nov 29 12:10:03 2013
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 09:09:42 -0800
From: Phil Karn <karn@philkarn.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CEBE1BDD.7F5FB%bedard.phil@gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Do any cable companies actually use the hardware multicast capability in
DOCSIS cable modems?
I can think of some potentially neat uses, but it seems highly unlikely
that the cable companies would enable their use to compete against their
own TV programming services.
