If you're skeptical about putting $50k into IPTV, you probably need to be looking elsewhere. Even rolling your own, it can easily run you more than that. Satellite receivers are expensive. ASI to IP conversion is expensive. The likely upgrades to your network to handle the increased load is expensive.
Then there's the problem that wireless gear and IPTV don't mix very well. Even all the matters of jitter / QOS aside that require some effort to get VoIP over wireless working well, most APs deployed today just don't have the throughput. You're basically talking about sustaining a 2Mbps stream (for mpeg4 SD stream) or, if you try to do HD, 10Mbps for each STB downstream of your access point. Most of the wireless gear in the market breaks down very quickly under that sort of load. On the other hand, if you're talking MDUs, wireless can handle the backhaul to a wired network without an issue. -Clint On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:16 AM, jree...@18-30chat.net < jree...@18-30chat.net> wrote: > Thats the problem, if I had 50K sitting around for gear, I would not be > putting > it into TV (well, maybe I would be, but more BW, more towers, faster > clients, > etc come to mind sooner). > > I can build a head end for far far less then that, If I stuck to the free > channels or made my won deals with each channel. There are 1000's (well, > close) > of free to air channels out there. Some even give explicit permission to > rebroadcast the channel, as long as you notify them etc. I was hoping to > find a > place that would let me purchase channels X, Y, and Z, etc. The locals are > easy > enough to deal with. So, Looks like I will need to do my own head end, no > biggie > over all. Who do I talk to about licensing? I knwo some channels are > direct, > some are not. Is there a list? And, can a person who already has a license > sub-license to me? Like MDU style? I know Charter does that, if you have > enough > people (IE I suspect enough money) If I could sublet off of a existing > licensee > and do my own IP transport, that would work out pretty well. Anyone have a > license contract they can share? (most seam to have some NDA stuffs) > > can...@believewireless.net wrote: > > When we looked into Avail Media, it was a $500,000 investment to start > > if I remember correctly. (Headend, set top boxes, etc.) > > > > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Jayson Baker <jay...@spectrasurf.com> > wrote: > >> Have a look at Avail Media. We used them in the past for an FTTH > project I > >> was involved in. > >> They will provide you the headend, and satellite feeds from their > >> super-headend (aggregator). > >> They work with the networks and it makes licensing and such a little > easier. > >> > >> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 7:44 AM, jree...@18-30chat.net < > jree...@18-30chat.net > >>> wrote: > >>> I have been looking at some IPTV options and basically, there does not > seam > >>> to > >>> be a whole lot of options. I can A) build my own IP headend B) nada . > I > >>> can not > >>> find a single IPTV provider that truly caters to the resident, soho, > etc. > >>> There > >>> is one that does so for huge cable op's but thats not where I am at, > yet =) > >>> > >>> I can build my own head end no problem. Licensing is the primary issues > >>> there. I > >>> am guessing that is what is stopping the explosion of retail IPTV and > >>> instead > >>> pushing the more a la carte IP video streamers like NetFlix, HuLu, et > al. > >>> > >>> So, what options exist for IPTV ? > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> WISPA Wants You! Join today! > >>> http://signup.wispa.org/ > >>> > >>> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> > >>> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > >>> > >>> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > >>> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > >>> > >>> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > >>> > >> > >> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> WISPA Wants You! 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