[52023] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP over in-ground cable applications.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Thu Sep 12 14:54:29 2002
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 21:53:49 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: "Christopher J. Wolff" <chris@bblabs.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
"Christopher J. Wolff" wrote:
> My current thoughts on this are to digitize the satellite video into
> mpeg2 and deliver it over TCP/IP through the in-ground cable. This way,
> integrating the video and data portion are easy, however the resident
> would need to buy a mpeg2 set-top-box to split out the video and
> internet. Thank you very much for your consideration.
>
Most satellite video is already mpeg2, why would you want to touch
the bitstream? all you need is add the IP headers.
Pete
