[opendtv] Re: Spectrum is too valuable

  • From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 00:53:42 +0000

Craig Birkmaier wrote:

You are looking at this problem from the wrong perspective. You are
trying to design the system assuming sustained bit rates for every
home.

Okay, I checked the Verizon FiOS site, and you're right. The speed is the
maximum, and "your results may vary." So, not a guaranteed rate. That makes
more sense, and is at the same time much less impressive. They are simply
quoting the speed you would have, if you were the only household using that PON
head end at the time.

The claim was that it may be a decade or more before everything is
delivered OTT.

It could even take longer than that, but NOT because the infrastructure can't
be in place long before then. More like, the MVPDs prefer their well-known
walled garden model, and will hang onto it as long as people continue to pay
for it. But apparently there are several college campuses where the cable
companies have already installed all-IP TV nets, for "several years." So they
know full well how this is done.

http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/21/comcast-iptv-xfinity-on-campus/

Whether these kids will grow up happy to go back to the old way, as the article
implies without stating it explicitly, is a whole 'nother question. I'm not a
kid, and I know I wouldn't want to.

Bert



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