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Re: Not enough bandwidth? Essentially it's VoD at the node level. If anyone on a particular node wants say ESPN, then it gets broadcasted. If no one wants to watch QVC, then that bandwidth is not allocated for that channel.
Say you have 100 different channels and a node has 100 different receivers. At worst, you really are no worse off (network overhead aside) as all 100 stations would still be broadcasted. But if 1 or more of those receivers watched the same channel as another, you'd start saving bandwidth for other uses.
To make full use of this though nodes need be smaller. The larger the node you are on, the more likely the number of distinct channels increase. It's more likely a node of 500 customers would be watching more channels then a node of 100 customers.
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