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Originally Posted by Kymmy
No idea, perhaps someone TheDon or someone else can point us in the direction of more info... I for one didn't really think about the VOD option at first and yes it would work as long as VM think it out properly and not thier usual half hearted measure.
Knowing VM if they do go VOD then the saved bandwidth will be farmed out to thier BB sections and pushed to the limits. If they do then the VOD service will suffer and if the VOD system goes down then it'll impact on more people than todays compartmentalised system going down.
So is there any data/docs out there??
Kymmy
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This video is a good introduction to what the benefits are, and
here is a fair bit of information about it.
There is alot of technology out now that lets them do this quite easily, and it's all headend based they don't have to touch the last mile network at all.
As for them pushing all the bandwidth onto broadband, the end of the video talks about the new applications that will come from it, and one of the main ones is QAM sharing, which means that QAM's can be shared between switched video, vod, and data, so you could have a range of QAM's for each, and then some shared ones for overflow capacity which would be used by the service which had a higher bandwidth requirement at the time. You could probably also QOS the shared QAMs so switched video would take priority over vod which would take priority over data.