> Is there a reason you couldn't stick a dish or two up on the roof of a > central London DC? We had a customer do something similar in Manchester > (IFL2 / Reynolds) a few years ago. Their method of ingest (a rack full > of digiboxes) was, ahem, interesting to say the least though ;)
Hey, this was my installation! First generation of TV ingest of Zattoo http://www.zattoo.com/ - the setup at IFL/Manchester was built 2007 and survived probably about two or three years (I left Zattoo in fall 2008). Unlike assumed, the IFL/Manchester TV ingest was not DVB-S/DVB-S2, but DVB-T (Terrestrial). At that time we couldn't get a TV antenna installed in Telehouse North, thats why we went to IFL (there was no time for a good evaluation - we've choosen the quickest solution). Not sure about roof access at THN today. Still, while TV ingest was probably a bit awkward abusing common settop boxes (including regular and automated power cycles with APC 7920 to increase reliability), the whole Zattoo thing was pretty awesome, from a looking back perspective. During the soccer semifinal Germany-Turkey in June 2008 (European Championship) not less than 62000 viewers were served via over-the-top live IP TV. Still proud on this number. -- Fredy Kuenzler Init7 (Switzerland) Ltd. St.-Georgen-Strasse 70 CH-8400 Winterthur Switzerland http://www.init7.net/
