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Even if they make it a Sky broadband bundle, it's still ultimately delivered over BT Openreach or OpenEir in Ireland.
Though don't ISPs handle the link to the OpenReach infrastructure in each exchange (i.e. operate their own internet backbone and interconnects) - OpenReach only provide the last leg between consumer premises and the exchange ?
If that's the case then Sky would deliver their multicast streams to each exchange - and avoid any internet delivery issues.
Netflix is managing to service vast amounts of customers without any ISP infrastructure. There isn't really any reason Sky can't so similar although a managed IP network would give better quality but, is anyone complaining about Netflix?
Thought Netflix run at very low bitrates for their content - which they achieve by hugely optimised off-line encoding. You can't do that for live streams - so have to run at significantly higher bitrates (and HEVC won't help you as much for interlaced content as progressive)
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Even if they make it a Sky broadband bundle, it's still ultimately delivered over BT Openreach or OpenEir in Ireland.
Though don't ISPs handle the link to the OpenReach infrastructure in each exchange (i.e. operate their own internet backbone and interconnects) - OpenReach only provide the last leg between consumer premises and the exchange ?
If that's the case then Sky would deliver their multicast streams to each exchange - and avoid any internet delivery issues.
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Netflix is managing to service vast amounts of customers without any ISP infrastructure. There isn't really any reason Sky can't so similar although a managed IP network would give better quality but, is anyone complaining about Netflix?
Thought Netflix run at very low bitrates for their content - which they achieve by hugely optimised off-line encoding. You can't do that for live streams - so have to run at significantly higher bitrates (and HEVC won't help you as much for interlaced content as progressive)