LINX50 Multicast STM

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LINX50Multicast STM

• Brandon Butterworth

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Post Olympics

• Fairly quiet whilst waiting for rights issues to
  be resolved on 24x7 channels, some events
  including
• Queens Tennis, Open Golf
• World Athletics Championship
• 07-07-2005 11Gbit, 120K streams -
  http//www.bbc.co.uk/feedback/stats.shtml
• Other events as they happen, Sport are set up to
  stream anything they get rights for

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Background work

• H264 developing, standard for HDTV
• H264 now in QT, VLC and appearing in other apps.
  Aiming for common content Internet TV
• IPTV taking off, BT and others have announced VoD
  and live Homechoice style services. We have full
  DTT MPEG2 streams prior to H264 STB availability
  2005Q4

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Background work

• Looking at Interactive TV/Internet cross
  over/convergence - which middle ware?
• ADSL rates rising - 8M now, 24M soon
• 10M cable announced
• Ongoing work with ISPs to build reach
• Some ISPs wait and see, others quietly building
  out enabling access for all users (100K for some)

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Todays STM

• After content rights are fixed roll out will be
  fairly rapid. Other content owners (e.g. Sky)
  getting interested in Broadband capabilities
• Good to use this quiet time to assist more ISPs
  set up
• James will demonstrate easy set up

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Multicast Trial Network

• Standalone infrastructure, http//support.bbc.co.u
  k/multicast/peering/ AS31459 UK, AS34158
  International
• Dedicated LINX LoNAP ports, PIs in Telehouse
  North if required.
• UK only routes as per BBCi Broadband.
• All welcome multicast-tech_at_bbc.co.uk

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Questions