Posted by AnthonyR on 12/25/38 11:31

<marks542004@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> This may be off topic - please suggest other newsgroup if applicable.
>
> There was a report on my local TV news about several cable companies
> carrying several TV series on-demand.
>
> Does anyone know the carrying capacity of a cable network for this type
> of thing.
>
> When I was involved with computer networking 15 years ago video
> conferencing always wound up killing the networks.
>
> I know speeds have gone up considerably but there must be a point at
> which the on-demand capacity breaks down.
>
>
> regards
>

Not sure on the answer but i thought the same thing.
In fact Time Warner offers me so many OnDemand channels now it's impossible
to watch a fraction every day.
Besides Movies from HBO, Showtime, TMC etc... they offer A&E, CNN,
FoodNetwork, Comedy Central you name it
everything OnDemand now. I don't know their limits but so far everything
runs pretty smoothly.
I wonder after every single customer goes digital, uses broadband and movies
over IP at the same time what will happen?

AnthonyR.

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