5 May
2011
5 May
'11
11:36 a.m.
On 05/05/11 00:15, Jeff Young wrote:
The most ambitious use of multicast I'm aware of is AT&T's UVerse network which multicasts (SS) from two head-ends all the way to the set top box in a home. But this is confined to the AT&T network and UVerse is arguably a "me-too" offering to compete with Time Warner Cable and others.
Telefonica has a similar multicast deployment in its Spanish network, marketed as Imagenio, so this proves that multicast can be quite useful within a provider's own network. Too bad the economic incentives are not so clear/inexistent for transit networks. -Lorand Jakab
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