said by FactChecker:Why should it be free for the BBC?
Also we have a generation of users that watch less and less linear/live video. People want on-demand these days which multicast does not solve.
hmm, you said amoung other things "Bit's cost money to deliver end to end." so your after reducing the cost to you, fair enough, but then you bring up this odd (is this a US ISP thing?) free peering arrangements are bad !
you cant have it both ways, eather you want to save transit money and bandwidth or you dont...
as for the "we have a generation of users that watch less and less linear/live video. People want on-demand these days which multicast does not solve."
were is it written that end users want realtime on-demand playback as such?, we would be perfectly happy with "Near realtime" on-demand playback, AND MULTICAST IS Perfectly suited to that as was proven by the old MBONE backbone of years gone by.
if only one person asks for a multicasted BBC on-demand program within a short given time, then your still using the same bandwidth amount the antiquated Unicast on-demand
program would use today....
However, if just one more person asks for the same multicasted BBC on-demand program within a short given time, (for arguments sake, say 2-5 minutes on a generic multicast stacking request html webpage), then your instantly saving nearly 50% of the potentially used bandwidth once the muticast stream begins.
multiply that time per request by the popularity of the content provider and your looking at least 100 saved servings per content in a given short timeframe when using Near realtime Multicast protocol that was designed for exactly this purpose, compared to antiquated Unicast poin to point singular serving....
in case its not clear for non Uk readers, BT(*DSL) and virgin media(DS cable) are the two largest ISPs supplying the consumer markets over their own country wide fibre networks, so primarilly the BBC video content flows to these networks through Unicast, as these two ISPs have as stated, not took the BBC up on their free offer to supply the UK licence fee payed for content to them and on to the users/owner of that content as fee payers.
as already stated, the BBC do also pay the doing rates to their Co-Location site providers for their content dataflow OC.
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support.bbc.co.uk/multic ··· peering/BBC R&D Peering
The BBC operates a separate research network where we trial next generation services & technologies.
Today's project is - Multicast
If you also wish to peer with our production network see »
support.bbc.co.uk/suppor ··· peering/We will peer with any ISP participating in our projects both directly and at Internet Peering Points.
Our peering policy is as follows:
We will peer with an ISP if to do so would be of mutual benefit.
We require you to demonstrate a competence in BGP and TCP/IP networking.
We require you to maintain an english speaking NOC able to respond to issues by email or telephone 24x7.
We do not require a formal peering agreement, but will sign one, subject to negotiation, if you require one.
All BGP sessions should be configured with an MD5 password of at least 15 characters length.
Due to the localised nature of BBC content we require differentiation of UK and other country routes.
For the UK multicast trial you must not distribute 233.122.227/24 and SSM sources from 132.185.224/20 beyond the UK (for avoidance of doubt we'll define UK as areas covered by the TV License fee)
Here is a list of the Internet Peering Points that we currently have a presence at:
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