On Wed, 1 Aug 2018 at 20:47, Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi> wrote:
I'm sure both of your use cases are used extensively in internal network. I've worked for company who distributed broadcast TV on their MPLS IP backbone, two-plane network, red and blue, one copy for each tv channel on both planes and far-end drops redundant copy. Very attractive solution commercially for client and provider. But no potential for global scale.
Just to clarify what I mean by 'broadcast TV', these streams were not received by set-top boxes receiving IP packets. End-users were cable/antennae users, 'client' was receiving the content at antennae site to be transmitted over air. Classically these are separate purpose built networks, which are very expensive, so in this particular case everyone won, except the legacy provider who was billing for the purpose built network. -- ++ytti