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Re: TV service providers - the future

Riaz Kanani — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:11:45 -0000

Have you taken a look at Cachelogic? They cache popular content for ISPs at the edge of their network to help reduce those running costs. For me this is a better place to cache content than on the edge of content delivery networks like Akamai.

Of course I have no idea how well that can scale - but its a first step towards reducing the costs of delivering content using an IP based network.

Re: TV service providers - the future

Riaz Kanani — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:05:21 -0000

thanks :)

Re: TV service providers - the future

Reader — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:05:47 -0000

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Re: TV service providers - the future

Riaz Kanani — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:50:14 -0000

Sky have the ability to use their satellite connection to deliver large amounts of content - they can therefore get more from the 24mbps connection than the other providers can - of course they are stuck on the upstream.

But you got me thinking further - Sky would also need to use the same ADSL 2+ connection for video on demand, which if HD quality, would chew through a lot of that bandwidth too. I had forgotten they can't do VOD.

Re: TV service providers - the future

Reader — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:33:27 -0000

It is employed by many cable television operators to provide Internet access over their existing hybrid fibre coaxial (HFC) infrastructure. Docsis 3 was released in August 2006.

"...if they can innovate and take advantage of their bandwidth scale then there would be little the other broadband providers could do.. except Sky."

What is Sky going to do?

Re: TV service providers - the future

Riaz Kanani — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:46:18 -0000

Docsis 3 is the technology Virgin Media are using to achieve the 50Mbps speeds (scalable up to around 100Mbps).

Re: TV service providers - the future

Reader — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:43:23 -0000

Docsis 3?

Re: TV service providers - the future

Riaz Kanani — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:11:45 -0000

Re: TV service providers - the future

Riaz Kanani — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:05:21 -0000

thanks :)

Re: TV service providers - the future

Reader — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:05:47 -0000

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Re: TV service providers - the future

Reader — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:05:47 -0000