[88473] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Triple Play [was: CAUTION: Potentially Dumb Question...]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Mon Feb 6 23:20:30 2006
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 23:17:45 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <03235919BBDE634289BB6A0758A20B363586B1@NT-SJCA-0751.brcm.ad.broadcom.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Bora Akyol wrote:
> > He hasn't taken broadcast TV delivery into account in the
> > Triple Play scenario. You gotta plumb them packets good for that...
>
> I don't watch anything live anymore, all via Tivo. If Tivo could
> do bittorrent and download the content, then would I need
> broadcast?
Broadcast remains an extremely efficient method for bulk distribution of
content to those TiVo's even if you watch everything on a delay. Some
grad student can probably write a thesis what the cross-over point is for
different use conditions. FedEx vs. P2P vs. Unicast vs. Broadcast vs. ???
I think BitTorrent is successfull because that's where the content
people want is. I don't think users actually care much about the
protocols. We've seen how fickle users can be, quickly migrating
to different protocols/applications depending on where the content
they want is. Are there any Gopher servers left?
> TV model is going to change significantly in the next 3-5 years.
I'll agree, but I have no idea how. Most of the predictions will
be wrong, they always are.
I've seen a lot of cool future stuff from various companies and individual
inventors. But it will be the consumer that decides the winners.
