So we're looking at $25k for the hardware to do an MPEG-4 H.264 IPTV system for up to 100 channels?
Remaining items needed (or desired): 1) Middleware (Minerva) 2) Licensing (only your past seems to indicate that this can be done) 3) VoD 4) Content stream from Avail or Echostar Missing anything? Costs for the others? ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------- From: "Jayson Baker" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 12:20 PM To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WISPA] IPTV -- Anyone doing it? > Interestingly enough, I've had a project lying on my desk for a couple > weeks > now which requires streaming live content to a large group of people in a > neighborhood (think of it as a neighborhood association wanting to > broadcast > their meetings to their residents). I don't know why I didn't see the > similarity between this post and that project. > > I just spent the last couple hours working on this, and now have a Linux > server streaming the content out over the wireless network multicast > without > any issues. > > Taking a deeper look... > We have ASI-input cards from Linear Systems. They take 4 ASI streams... > maybe 32 each? I can't remember. > > A quick look on eBay found some Moto C-Band receivers that output 32 ASI > streams for under $1000. > > An entire receiving, encoding, streaming headend for under 100 channels > could be built for probably under $25,000. > > I don't know what you're after, but if there is some serious interest in > putting effort into something like this, we might be on board. > > Jayson > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Jack Unger <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Blake, >> >> In general the IPTV principles being discussed would apply to any >> broadband wireless system either license-free, licensed, or >> licensed-lite. >> >> jack >> >> >> Blake Covarrubias wrote: >> > I've read the responses from others who are running IPTV over wireless. >> > >> > My question is when you all are saying wireless, do you mean unlicensed >> 2.4ghz or 5.8ghz, or do you mean wireless technology in general? >> > >> > My company utilizes 2.5 and 3.65ghz, which are the same frequencies >> > we'd >> be looking to use to deploy IPTV. >> > >> > -- >> > Blake Covarrubias >> > >> > On Nov 15, 2009, at 4:03 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: >> > >> > >> >> Every time this comes up, I say the same thing. You can't over >> wireless. >> >> The content owners WILL NOT license it for wireless use. I've tried >> >> numerous times >> >> -- >> Jack Unger - President, Ask-Wi.Com, Inc. >> Author - "Deploying License-Free Wireless WANs" >> Serving the Broadband Wireless Industry Since 1993 >> www.ask-wi.com 818-227-4220 [email protected] >> >> Sent from my Pizzicato PluckString... >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
