What Brian explained is how the dutch public broadcast organization is collaborating with 8 ISP's to ensure the best service for catch-up tv over the internet (uitzendiggemist.nl) There is an article in dutch that explains this collaboration : http://www.emerce.nl/nieuws.jsp?id=2103122
-- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ir. Werner Ramaekers Read my Blog at http://www.werner.be ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Werner Ramaekers Internet Technologies for Media VRT Medialab -IBBT On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Jeremy James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian Butterworth wrote: > > * ISPs provide rack space for BBC servers inside their network > > * Who pays for servers? > * Who maintains servers? ISP? Siemens? > * Who pays for power usage? > > > * ISPs provide list of IP addresses to directed to said servers > > * How is this done? Manually? How many ISPs? Or as fun as those > automatic emails to/from Nominet? > * ISPs sometimes move users from one end of the country to the other on > the same IPs, but via different (effective) POPs. How much information > needs to be transmitted to allow closer proxies? > * Is the mapping of IPs to logical network layout confidential? > > > * BBC copies each new file (and deletes) to these servers > > * How much disk space required? > * Standard protocols to copy files? (rsync? HTTP?) New ones? > * How can you be sure ISPs delete the content when they are meant to? > > > * iPlayer software detect and redirects to BBC servers inside ISP network > > * Big list of IPs to scan on a regular basis. Performance issues? > * What if ISP proxy is dead? > * What if it dies during playback? > * What if it doesn't have the content yet/already deleted it? > > > * Interim solution until fatter pipes purchased, say 2-3 years. > > * Agreed. Fibre FTW, as they say. > * But who pays? > > -jeremy > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
