> > And while a small ISP serving Plattsburg NY would have no problem > > peering with the WPTZ server in Plattsburg, would the big guys like > > Comcast/Verizon be amenable to peering with TV stations in small markets? > > This is already the case in many markets. It may not be IP peering, but > there have been several recent instances where a broadcast TV > transmitter is off the air due to some kind of failure and their cable > feed keeps on chugging. Obviously there is some form of connection > between the TV station and the cable company that doesn't rely on OTA.
Hell, even STL links these days are often packet based. (It's often a lot simpler and cheaper than trying to operate a microwave feed.) So if you've already done the encoding, the OTA setup is simply one branch among several possible paths. -Wayne --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/
