Re: Fiber project/IPTV multicast

2013-02-09 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
On 13-02-09 14:02, Jay Ashworth wrote: Do any of the people who've worked with some of the IPTV delivery services mentioned here know if their live TV services can be handled via Multicast? I know that Bell Canada uses the Microsoft MediaRoom IPTV servers and they support multicast. The

Re: Fiber project/IPTV multicast

2013-02-09 Thread Warren Bailey
, they have some neat stuff they discuss. From my Android phone on T-Mobile. The first nationwide 4G network. Original message From: Jean-Francois Mezei jfmezei_na...@vaxination.ca Date: 02/09/2013 11:19 AM (GMT-08:00) To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Fiber project/IPTV multicast

Re: Fiber project/IPTV multicast

2013-02-09 Thread Scott Helms
However you get your video feed you can encode it as ip and feed it out to your shelves as IGMP streams. This is the normal way to handle linear programming. On Feb 9, 2013 2:03 PM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: Do any of the people who've worked with some of the IPTV delivery services

Re: Fiber project/IPTV multicast

2013-02-09 Thread Scott Helms
More accurately you'll do MPEG 4 streams controlled by IGMP. On Feb 9, 2013 3:55 PM, Scott Helms khe...@zcorum.com wrote: However you get your video feed you can encode it as ip and feed it out to your shelves as IGMP streams. This is the normal way to handle linear programming. On Feb 9,

Re: Fiber project/IPTV multicast

2013-02-09 Thread Tim Jackson
Yes. Most live IPTV is delivered across multicast*. There are a few gotchas. MMR uses a unicast fill for instant channel change (configurable bandwidth ammounts, etc) on top of Multicast. Some other middleware may have similar methods to accomplish this. Usually at the DSLAM you'll see hax to

Re: Fiber project/IPTV multicast

2013-02-09 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
On 13-02-09 14:02, Jay Ashworth wrote: Do any of the people who've worked with some of the IPTV delivery services mentioned here know if their live TV services can be handled via Multicast? Note that in Canada, because incumbents refuse access to their multicast enabled infrastructure, some of