Broadcast television in an IP world

Tue Nov 21 14:23:01 UTC 2017

It's not helpful for saving resources in DOCSIS (nor any other) edge
networks.  The economics mean that, as bits get sold in the US and many
other places, it won't be in the foreseeable future.  Customers care about
popular video sources.  Popular content sources have CDNs with local nodes
and/or direct (low cost) connections to their CDN.  That's far more
efficient than allowing multicast across WAN links.

K. Scott Helms

On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 8:58 AM, Luke Guillory <lguillory at reservetele.com>
wrote:

> I’m not paying anything for local resources with regards to local edge
> delivery, that’s capital expenditures not MRCs.
>
> Our edge networks aren’t unlimited or free, so while it’s not costing me
> on the transit side there still are cost in terms of upgrades and so on.
>
> My point is that In some networks such as docsis conserving edge resources
> can be helped with multicast.
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Nov 21, 2017, at 4:12 AM, Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl at gmail.com<
> mailto:baldur.norddahl at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> Den 21. nov. 2017 00.42 skrev "Luke Guillory" <lguillory at reservetele.com<
> mailto:lguillory at reservetele.com>>:
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> Why would an ISP not want to conserve edge resources? If I’m doing iptv I’m
> better off doing multicast which would conserve loads of BW for something
> popular like the Super Bowl. Especially if I’m doing this over docsis.
>
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> You pay for 95th percentile. If that is decided by everyone watching Game
> of Thrones one day, then using the same resources for Super Bowl the next
> day will be for free.
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