[72494] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: video distribution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Crosby)
Wed Jul 14 17:02:11 2004
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:01:13 -0400
From: Ben Crosby <ben.crosby@alcatel.com>
Reply-To: Ben Crosby <ben.crosby@alcatel.com>
To: "Christopher J. Wolff" <chris@bblabs.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <B0009417612@mail.bblabs.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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Christopher,
1) Are your end users using TV's or PC's to view the streams ?
2) When you refer to "WAN" is the entire IP network under your
control ?
3) Are there any restrictions on conditional access or bandwidth
placed upon the implementation by the content owner ?
Cheers,
Ben.
Christopher> Hello,
Christopher> I have a "state of the state" sort of
Christopher> question for you guru's out there. If
Christopher> I wanted to make a number of video streams
Christopher> available across an IP WAN
Christopher> network, I have a couple of options.
Christopher> Unicast or Multicast. Unicast isn't
Christopher> the most efficient method necessarily so my
Christopher> preference would be Multicast.
Christopher> Now since it's been years since I've
Christopher> thought about Multicast, are there any
Christopher> hot new technologies or methods available
Christopher> for video transmission over an IP
Christopher> network? Thank you very much for your time.
Christopher> Regards,
Christopher> Christopher J. Wolff VP CIO
Christopher> Broadband Laboratories, Inc.
Christopher> http://www.bblabs.com
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