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Re: video distribution

  • From: Ben Crosby
  • Date: Wed Jul 14 17:04:38 2004 
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Christopher,

1) Are your end users using TV's or PC's to view the streams ?
2) When you refer to "WAN" is the entire IP network under your
control ?
3) Are there any restrictions on conditional access or bandwidth
placed upon the implementation by the content owner ?

Cheers,
Ben.


Christopher> Hello,

Christopher> I have a "state of the state" sort of
Christopher> question for you guru's out there.  If
Christopher> I wanted to make a number of video streams
Christopher> available across an IP WAN
Christopher> network, I have a couple of options.
Christopher> Unicast or Multicast.  Unicast isn't
Christopher> the most efficient method necessarily so my
Christopher> preference would be Multicast.
Christopher> Now since it's been years since I've
Christopher> thought about Multicast, are there any
Christopher> hot new technologies or methods available
Christopher> for video transmission over an IP
Christopher> network?  Thank you very much for your time.

Christopher> Regards,
Christopher> Christopher J. Wolff VP CIO
Christopher> Broadband Laboratories, Inc.
Christopher> http://www.bblabs.com

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