Re: Commodity routers/switches

2017-11-18 Thread Fredrik Korsbäck
On 2017-11-19 02:55, mike.l...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy! Looking to replace some edge routers for my small ISP. With all the various SDN platforms available along with various choices of bare-metal hardware platforms, im thinking i may go this route instead of going with Cisco/Juniper/Etc. I

Re: Broadcast television in an IP world

2017-11-18 Thread Wayne Bouchard
Where the content is increasingly becoming on-demand, no, multicast isn't going to benefit folks that much. The delivery is going to pretty much remain single-stream based strictly on the time differential from one user's start point to the next even if they are both watching the same episode. So

Re: Commodity routers/switches

2017-11-18 Thread joel jaeggli
On 11/18/17 17:55, mike.l...@gmail.com wrote: > Howdy! > > Looking to replace some edge routers for my small ISP. With all the various > SDN platforms available along with various choices of bare-metal hardware > platforms, im thinking i may go this route instead of going with >

Commodity routers/switches

2017-11-18 Thread mike . lyon
Howdy! Looking to replace some edge routers for my small ISP. With all the various SDN platforms available along with various choices of bare-metal hardware platforms, im thinking i may go this route instead of going with Cisco/Juniper/Etc. I only need a handful of 10G uplinks. The SuperMicro

RE: Broadcast television in an IP world

2017-11-18 Thread Kraig Beahn
I wanted to note that, in no way shape or form was my previous message a vendor or technology recommendation, nor do we have any direct or indirect financial ties to either party, except that we provide the DIA fiber trunk to pass the live video content from the studio to the GDM peering point. At

RE: Broadcast television in an IP world

2017-11-18 Thread Keith Medcalf
Looks OK on my old 12" 240i interlace CRT. However, it is not High Definition. Like everything on the Roku it is CATRS (Compressed All To Rat Shit) and motion decimated and unsuitable for display on anything bigger/more modern than a 12 240i CRT circa 1980 or so, and certainly completely

Re: Broadcast television in an IP world

2017-11-18 Thread Kraig Beahn
The OTT side is already being implemented by a major broadcast customer of ours. Right now they simply rebroadcast their news, both live and prerecorded, i'm assuming until the national networks and syndicators will allow reasonable OTT licensing fee's. They use a product called SyncBak (for

Re: Broadcast television in an IP world

2017-11-18 Thread Baldur Norddahl
> It does for delivering live content. Local programming, news, sports, C-SPAN, etc. Canned program content such as TV series, not so much. On-demand not at all. Our network carries a lot of streaming content. We have no multicast because we offer no TV. But the customers will occasionally