[53505] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PAIX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Sat Nov 16 07:20:43 2002
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 14:19:32 +0200
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@exigengroup.com>
Cc: Jere Retzer <retzerj@ohsu.edu>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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>>- While we're on the topic of local video, what happens when
>>television migrates to IP networks?
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>Why should it? There's a cheap, ubiquitous, widely deployed broadcasting
>medium already. I never understood network integration for the sake of
>network integration.
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That medium only works for large audiences. It does not address
geographically
large sparse audiences at all.
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>In any case, TV (of all things) does not have problems with latency or
>jitter below 10s of seconds. All TV content is pre-packaged.
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Live events and interactive show's are not. In some cases you start to
suffer if your
latency goes to multiple-seconds range. That's quite rare anyway, >500ms
network latency is quite rare and add few hundred codec and de-jitter
latency and
you'll find that excessive jitter is your enemy, not the latency itself.
Pete
