That’s very interesting … so you have to decrypt the incoming feed to then turn around an encrypt it to your STB’s from your headend(s) ?
From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Josh Reynolds Sent: July 2, 2016 11:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OSPF Filtering Both in the US, in our experience. With any of the content provider organizations (NTTC, etc). On Jul 2, 2016 7:13 AM, "Paul Stewart" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Oh... I may have been misunderstanding of where in the network you were referring to then Chuck ... I was referring to the signal acquirement that feeds into the headend itself ;) I believe you are talking about once at the headend, delivering that signal to customers? -----Original Message----- From: Af [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] On Behalf Of Chuck McCown Sent: June 30, 2016 3:54 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OSPF Filtering There has to be some conditional access and encryption of any IPTV I have worked with. Veramatrix was generally the encryption method. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Stewart Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2016 1:50 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OSPF Filtering It's not done that way in networks I've worked with ... these are typically satellite acquirement with conversion to IP and then multicast to headend .... or in several cases it's a multicast fiber feed from the content provider and there's no encryption at all .... -----Original Message----- From: Af [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] On Behalf Of Chuck McCown Sent: June 30, 2016 3:12 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OSPF Filtering Even though it is already encrypted... -----Original Message----- From: Chuck McCown Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2016 1:12 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OSPF Filtering Encryption is 100% required any time you are involved in distributing TV content. -----Original Message----- From: Butch Evans Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2016 1:07 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OSPF Filtering On 06/30/2016 02:03 PM, Chuck McCown wrote: > Speaking of tunneling, if I was to import a TV headend feed, say 1 > Gbps, over the open internet, which protocol would be best: > GRE > EoIP > IPIP > PPTP > ? > ? > ? > Same answer. Unless you need encryption, GRE is stable, fast and lightweight. If you need large packets (jumbo frames) you can use l2tp and add in the bcp MRRU and transport those. -- Butch Evans Training and Support for WISPs 702-537-0979 <tel:702-537-0979> http://store.wispgear.net/ http://www.butchevans.com/
