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Too bad multicast streaming never really happened.

• zbobet2012 10y ago
  How do you think digital cable television works today? It happens, just on closed private networks.
  • superuser2 10y ago
    Is digital cable television using IP? I thought it would be something proprietary.
    • zbobet2012 10y ago
      IP to the edge (of a CMTS) and then it's flipped to QAM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrature_amplitude_modulation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrature_amplitude_modulatio... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_modem_termination_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_modem_termination_system Also systems like AT&T uverse (fiber to the home) use IP multicast.