I suspect it's more of a choice of what's available than what he wants. If you're building from the ground-up, you can be picky, but if you're going light-weight (as little head-end as possible), you're stuck with whatever (good or bad) your wholesale partner uses.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Seastrom" <r...@seastrom.com> To: "Brandon Martin" <lists.na...@monmotha.net> Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Monday, April 27, 2015 8:08:50 PM Subject: Re: IPTV providers in IN/Chicago Brandon Martin <lists.na...@monmotha.net> writes: > Anyone know of an IPTV provider/wholesaler who I could meet in > Indianapolis (Henry St/Lifeline) or Chicago (Cermak/Equinix)? "IPTV" implies, or used to imply, multicast (or unicast, whichever, swap them with a few DCMs) MPEG2-TS feeds. If that's what you want, fine, but if it's not you might want to be a bit more specific. -r