That's not my understanding. Frank
-----Original Message----- From: Jay Ashworth [mailto:j...@baylink.com] Sent: Friday, December 24, 2010 10:25 AM To: NANOG Subject: Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Frank Bulk - iName.com" <frnk...@iname.com> > Uhm, D-CATV is not IP just quite yet. Sometimes I wish that's the > case, but it's still very much RF. > > There are several vendors that sell GPON solutions that support RF > over fiber, and there's always IP TV. Hmm. I had acquired the idea, from looking at the setup screens on the latest gen SciAt converters that it was, at very least, FDM IP multicast; that is, MPEG2 over IP multicast, and then multiplexed 4:1 or so into multiple broadband carriers, but sent as IP multicast streams and decoded that way. No? Cheers, -- jra