death of the net predicted by deloitte -- film at 11

Mon Feb 12 00:22:43 UTC 2007

> do what google is presumably doing (lots of fiber), or would they put
> some capital and preorder into IDMR?

IDMR is great if you're a broadcaster or a backbone, but how does it help 
the last 2 miles, the phoneco ATM network or the ISP network where you have 
10k different users watching 10k different channels? I'm not sure if it 
would help with a multinode replication network like what google is probably 
up to either (which explains why they want dedicated bandwidth, internode 
replication solves the backup problems as well).

Also forgetting that bandwidth issue for a moment, where is the draw that 
makes IPTV better than cable or satellite?  I mean come on guys, if the 
world had started out with IPTV live broadcasts over the internet and then 
someone developed cable, satellite, or over the air broadcasting, any of 
those would have been considered an improvement. IPTV needs something the 
others don't have and a simple advantage is that of an archive instead of 
broadcast medium. The model has to be different from the broadcast model or 
it's never going to fly.

TIVO type setup with a massive archive of every show so you can not only 
watch this weeks episode but you can tivo download any show from the last 6 
years worth of your favorite series is one heck of a draw over cable or 
satellite and might be enough to motivate the public to move to a different 
service. A better tivo than tivo. As for making money, just stick a 
commercial on the front of every download. How many movies are claimed 
downloaded on the fileshare networks every week?

Geo. 