Assuming you have set top boxes and you are engaged in content delivery
(which is not what I thought Chuck meant.) I assumed this was faceless
provider X delivering to unrelated provider Y. If you are involved in
the receipt and delivery of the service then, yeah, there's a ton of
things you can do.
On 1/25/2017 11:23 AM, Josh Reynolds wrote:
Live TV from content providers comes in via unicast. Then locally
multicast to set tops. On demand and DVR is unicast.
On Jan 25, 2017 11:19 AM, "Simon Westlake" <[email protected]> wrote:
Yeah, there are a bunch of ways if you have cooperation. What I
really meant was if content provider X sets up some kind of online
video streaming, and WISP Y comes along and has a bunch of
customers watching content, it is almost certainly going to be a
unicast stream to every subscriber.
On 1/25/2017 11:12 AM, Josh Reynolds wrote:
Not always. I just heard about two cool methods the other day.
One uses a single input switch port and then port mirroring.
Another method was actually outbound in-rack GPON and letting the
hardware layer itself do the replication to multiple local
servers, then from those outward to geographic distribution nodes.
On Jan 25, 2017 11:09 AM, "Simon Westlake" <[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
Nope, it is all unicast! Big pipes.
On 1/25/2017 11:03 AM, Chuck McCown wrote:
I have never understood how you can set up a streaming
server and deliver hundreds or thousands of streams without
having our upstream BW be stream BW X # of streams.� Each
stream has its own session, right?�
�
So with folks watching the coronation via CNN streaming, CNN
cannot possibly have a pipe large enough to give each user
its own BW.
�
I understand how simple this is with multicast, but I have
always presumed that multicast does not traverse the public
internet?� Hard enough to get it to work flawless
internally with IPTV.�
�
There is probably some kind of UDP broadcast type of thing
that I have just been unaware of.�
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