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From: "Scott Helms" <khelms@zcorum.com>
On the data side that's certainly possible, but the content guys won't play ball on a shared L2 network. This actually undermines my position on how to architect your system, but sharing anything from one of the big content guys isn't something I've seen them allow as of yet. Organizations like TVN(Avail now?) or NCTC also require direct agreements and I've never seen them do anything at an aggregation level.
I'm aware of how pissy content providers/transport aggregators are likely to be; I'm been involved in the mythTV project for about 7 years. My point was that if any of them provide on-site equipment as, say, Akamai do (and yes, I realize we're discussing real-time now, not caching), if they have multiple clients in the same place, it's in *their* best interest not to provision multiple racks just because they have contracts with multiple providers; perhaps such racks would connect directly, and mentioning my IX was a red-herring; my apologies for confusing the matter. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274