Why can we not get Sky (not vodafone TV) over UFB yet?

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#201679 29-Aug-2016 18:12

An installer back in 2013 said that it was in testing. Surely it would be cheaper in the long run, though fibre cuts could cause problems. Also I can assume that they would be able to increase the bitrate of their channels. With fibre they could bring Sky Sport HD back to the bitrate and resolution it was 2-3 years ago before they secretly decreased it without 99.9% of customers noticing.

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#1619278 29-Aug-2016 19:27

Technically it is already here in the form of Vodafone TV, but they have limited back to the Cable Network for the time being

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#1619295 29-Aug-2016 19:43

given the issues they currently have with fanpass how do you think they will go with 800,000 customers watching it online

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#1619300 29-Aug-2016 19:49

Sky don't have the hardware or capability to do it and have never looked seriously at this yet. Vodafone on the other hand have the ex TelstraClear playout system for the cable network that's native IP so it was simply a matter of reusing that to send a multicast UFB feed to the masses.

If the deal with Vodafone doesn't do ahead I'm sure they'll be looking at going down that path as they can deliver using Multicast to an additional ONT port.

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#1619302 29-Aug-2016 19:56

Jase2985:

given the issues they currently have with fanpass how do you think they will go with 800,000 customers watching it online

It uses Multicast on Fibre so network congestion isn't a problem