On 09/04/2008, David McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Crossland wrote: > > > The BBC-vs-ISP bandwidth issue could be resolved by the BBC dropping > > DRM so that the ISPs can cache the data. > > The ISPs who are anticipating financial hardship are more concerned with the > cost of bandwidth between their network and home ADSL users, and _not_ between > their network and the outside world. > > This is because they are charged a metered rate by BT for all the traffic they > relay over BT's ADSL network. > > Thus adding data caches to their network wouldn't solve their immediate > problem.
Indeed. But BTW could do it for the benefit of all of its resellers. Peter -- Peter Bowyer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/peeebeee - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
