Linear TV is still huge - live sport, reality TV nonsense and coronation street.
Sent from my iPhone On 2 Sep 2019, at 18:51, Marek Isalski <ma...@faelix.net> wrote: >> On 2 Sep 2019, at 17:37, Nicholas Humfrey <nicholas.humf...@bbc.co.uk> wrote: >> Is there any chance of multicast making a resurgence? If everyone has >> gigabit internet to their homes, will the network cores be able to cope with >> everyone watching 35 Mbps UHD (Live) television streams simultaneously? > > Isn't it all about on-demand streaming now, rather than broad-/multi-cast? I > mean, who actually watches live TV these days? It seems like building a > network for the future of video consumption (Millenial and Gen-Z) will need > CDN-type nodes as close as possible to distribution/aggregation nodes rather > than multicast across a backbone? Maybe multicast still has a role to play > to deliver content to set-top boxes...? > > Marek Isalski > Technical Director, Faelix Limited, https://faelix.net/ > > Faelix Limited: Security, Networks & Software. Registered in England and > Wales. Office: The Yard, 11 Bent Street, Manchester, M8 8NF. Company: > 5852778. VAT: 889 441470. > >
