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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?
Simon An additional point to consider is that it takes a lot of effort and $$$$ to get a channel allocated to your content in a cable network. This is much easier when TV is being distributed over the Internet. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Simon Lockhart > Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 2:42 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a > day, continuously? > > > On Tue Jan 09, 2007 at 07:52:02AM +0000, > [email protected] wrote: > > Given that the broadcast model for streaming content > > is so successful, why would you want to use the > > Internet for it? What is the benefit? > > How many channels can you get on your (terrestrial) broadcast > receiver? > > If you want more, your choices are satellite or cable. To get > cable, you > need to be in a cable area. To get satellite, you need to > stick a dish on > the side of your house, which you may not want to do, or may > not be allowed > to do. > > With IPTV, you just need a phoneline (and be close enough to > the exchange/CO > to get decent xDSL rate). In the UK, I'm already delivering > 40+ channels over > IPTV (over inter-provider multicast, to any UK ISP that wants it). > > Simon > >
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