Comment Actually it makes a lot of sense (Score 1) 57
1) Housing the content locally doesn't involve sending jitter sensitive material across the net.
2) It doesn't tax their OC3 or whatever to the net, all the bandwidth is consumed locally across their switch or router, which can probably handle it.
3) QOS becomes really easy
4) They know exactly how much bandwidth you have and for the non-super geeks out there they don't have to explain this.
5) It becomes an added benefit to subscribing to so and so's ISP
6) It increases revenue to the ISP and helps them utilize the transport equipment they already have in place.
7) Content owners are much more comfortable with it.
IPTV pays my bills, and I can tell you that there are many smaller telcos who would be interested in this. There IS an industry, and it's coming along just fine.
2) It doesn't tax their OC3 or whatever to the net, all the bandwidth is consumed locally across their switch or router, which can probably handle it.
3) QOS becomes really easy
4) They know exactly how much bandwidth you have and for the non-super geeks out there they don't have to explain this.
5) It becomes an added benefit to subscribing to so and so's ISP
6) It increases revenue to the ISP and helps them utilize the transport equipment they already have in place.
7) Content owners are much more comfortable with it.
IPTV pays my bills, and I can tell you that there are many smaller telcos who would be interested in this. There IS an industry, and it's coming along just fine.
