Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

Sun Feb 3 05:25:31 UTC 2013

Live TV still makes up the majority of video viewing.
http://www.thecab.tv/main/bm~doc/multiscreeninsights-2q12-p.pdf

Multicasting video remains a valuable video distribution technique.

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Owen DeLong [mailto:owen at delong.com] 
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 9:53 PM
To: Jean-Francois Mezei
Cc: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

On Feb 1, 2013, at 14:17 , Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog at vaxination.ca>
wrote:

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> If you have multicast and everyone is watching superbowl at same time,
> you're talking up very little bandwidth on that 2.mumble GPON link.

Meh. Since everyone seems to want to be able to pause, rewind, etc.,
multicast doesn't tend to happen so much even in the IPTV world these
days.

Owen