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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: is this like a peering war somehow?
<[email protected]> wrote: [...] > But it's no magic bullet. Streaming live media also requires low > jitter, especially if you are selling it as TV because viewers will > join and leave channels often, as they change channels on their > remote controls. This means you can't have big local buffers to hide > jitter, therefore you have to build a network with enough capacity > so that packets are all cut-through switched. I observe about 3-4 seconds of latency on the UK DVB-T and DAB broadcasts anyway compared to analogue. Cost-cutting on CPU grunt in decoder boxes can mean it takes up to ten seconds to change channel. In contrast, streaming video and audio from iTMS starts to play a lot quicker. It sounds like the problems with jitter and latency over private IP networks is overstated if it still works fine over the Internet. (FWIW, this is on 1Mb/s ADSL that is 170ms from www.apple.com.) -- My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. - Quentin Crisp
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