Delivering Video Over the Internet - General Question

[vdadlaney]

Hi, Could someone shed some light on how this is possible and what would it entail. I am just curious on how video is being delivered over ip to homes. Say for example a solution which would allow live content to be sent to homes or even pre-recorded content. What are the requirements? How to get past issues such as how much bandwidth is required etc. Thank you for your help.

[travis-dennis_2]

Since it is farly easy to send most anything over IP the real problem is in what do you use to generate the video in the first place.

For Cisco-centric solutions (the best there are of course) I would recommend that you start here http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/video/index.html

Here is another link that may be of interest regarding live video streaming.

Required bandwidth will be a misture of what type of video, how many end-points involved and the clarity needed.

This should be enough to get you started though.

Hope this helps

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[seilsz]

You can also find additional information here:

http://www.cisco.com/application/pdf/en/us/guest/netsol/ns264/c649/ccmigration_09186a00800e02ed.pdf

~Zach