[opendtv] Re: NTIA: National Broadband Map has Helped Chart Broadband Evol
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 00:43:36 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
What a flip flop. For months you've been saying the Internet is ready.
That's only because you make it a habit to not listen. Forever, I've been
saying that the Internet is improved right along with demand. You need to shut
off that racket in the background, Craig, and pay attention. Last time I had a
DSL problem, I was one of the few who complained. So people have been switching
over all along, Craig. Just like I said.
Lately you've been saying all would be well if the cabled MVPDs
recovered all of the bandwidth used for MPEG TS streams and just
improved broadband.
Do the math. If you recover all of the MPEG-2 TS broadcast spectrum in a given
neighborhood PON, how many households can you feed with 20 Mb/s downstream
service, without changing anything else in that PON?
Kilroy is correct. For video, edge servers are essential from
an economic perspective.
I've been telling you this, also, forever, Craig. Do you ever listen? You
didn't even bother to read what he wrote, for heaven's sake.
The reality check is that the last mile cannot handle the shift
from broadcasting linear streams to millions of UDP streams.
You're full of cr*p. First of all, already today, at least half of TV is
watched online. We've been over this already, but here's some not-too-recent
proof I dug up without any effort.
http://www.businessinsider.com/tv-will-reach-tipping-point-in-2014-as-50-of-americans-watch-online-2013-4
Secondly, what do you mean by "the last mile," Craig? The last mile cabling
certainly can, nowadays, although you need to deploy the distributed servers,
**as demand increases** for particular programs. The reality is, IPTV nets
exist. The reality is, as I've told you many times, as demand grows, the
Internet services grow with it. The reality is, your idea that we need decades
to get there is complete nonsense. It's vapor.
And, this is a legitimate new role for broadcasters, to become the CDNs in a
market.
Flash became the lingua Franca because it was already widely
used to build websites.
And it streams from web servers. It was a good fit, and cross platform. Going
around this circle again, no one is saying that it should be used forever, but
to just drop it suddenly is a perfect way to exacerbate the scaling problems.
Btw, I was very happy to see that the new Edge browser in Windows 10 has Flash
Player embedded. Now the updates will come along with all the Windows updates.
Good deal.
The inability of Adobe to deliver an efficient Flash player
Going around that circle again, that's an old canard and it's flat wrong.
Already explained to you many times. Inform yourself, Craig.
Bert
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