[smartBridges] Wireless Video on Demand?

[Oliver Leamy]

Hi,   Having had such great responses to my other technical questions, I hope someone might have an answer for a non-smartbridges area.  If this is not the right arena to air this question, then please accept my apology in advance.   I am deploying Smartbridges amongst a group of very remote islands off the coast of Ireland (Europe).  So far it is progressing nicely and have managed to get the majority of the backbone between the islands and across the hills and valleys in place.  As we go along, we have meeting with the communities and try to develop features and facilities that would be of immediate benefit to their quality of life.  A surprising request came up at a number of meetings – Is it possible to see videos over the wireless channels?   Simple question.  OK, there are the problems with QoS, but if we deploy 54Mbps kit (when it becomes available), and use bandwidth throttling to guarantee a 4Mbps trunk for video delivery, we should be OK(?).  I presume that UDP is required as the transport software rather than TCP/IP.   Has anyone done it, or does anyone know where I should go to get a start.  We will want to do it legally, so I presume we have to contact Time-Warner etc (anyone got contacts there!?)     Oliver Leamy   Ogenek Teoranta, Ballingeary, Macroom County Cork +353 (26) 47808 ; +353 (86) 8337664

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