At 2:29 PM -0500 2/24/05, John Shutt wrote: >Interesting concept, making every subscriber's IPTV set-top-box in reality a >member of a peer-to-peer network. The "edge servers" are the combined >cluster of neighborhood STBs! Hmmmm... Not sure i buy into the P2P sharing...or to be more accurate, that the content moguls would allow this. BUT. The IPTV system should be able to keep track of what is in local cache, at leas the stuff that they downloaded into that cache. If the upstream bandwidth is sufficient, it would be technically feasible to route the bits from the local cache in one home to another home at the same network level. Probably easier on a HFC loop than a telco system where everything is coming from the CO. Interesting... Regards Craig ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.