Dear Alexander;
On Jan 7, 2007, at 8:59 AM, Alexander Harrowell wrote:
In the mobile world, there is a lot of telco-led activity around
providing streaming video ("TV"), which always seems to boil down
to the following points:
We (AmericaFree.TV) simulcast everything in 3GPP and 3GPP2 at a lower
bit rate for mobiles.
At present, the mobile audience for our video is
- 0.3% of the total for the last month
- doubling every 2 months or less.
It's not clear if this glass is mostly empty or half full, but there
is a data point FWIW.
1) Just unicasting it over the radio access network is going to use
a lot of capacity, and latency will make streaming good quality tough.
2) Therefore, it has to be delivered in some sort of defined-QOS
fashion or else over a dedicated, broadcast or one-way only radio
link.
3) That means either a big centralised server we own, or another
big radio network we own.
4)....
5) PROFIT!!
I have heard that several big mobile providers are shortly going to
come out with 802.16 networks in support (I
assume) of point 3.
Regards
Marshall
