SVTA Webinar

Multicast ABR

Multicast ABR

Scheduled on 05/02/2018 10:00am

Webinar Recording

Description

When it comes to online streaming, we live in a unicast world. And that’s a problem. As more consumers gravitate towards anytime, anywhere video consumption, the capacity to serve single streams of high-quality video content to millions of viewers reaches its breaking point. The question is whether multicast ABR is the solution or just a technological unicorn. In this panel, you’ll learn about the differences between unicast and multicast, how multicast ABR might be achieved (and under what conditions) using a variety of technologies such as LTE-B, and the challenges that may keep this solution from ever coming to fruition.

Topics Covered

  1. What is Multicast ABR? How does it work?
  2. What are the primary use cases for M-ABR? Where does it work really well? Where does it fail?
  3. What are the benefits of M-ABR? To the operator? To the viewer?
  4. How do we make M-ABR work in today’s heterogenous delivery environments? (i.e., Internet + ISP network/mobile + home network)
  5. What are the technical “gotchas” for implementing M-ABR? What do network operators have to keep in mind when considering deployment?
  6. Have we seen any deployments today? If not, why not?
  7. The industry has been talking about M-ABR for several years now. What is the primary obstacle to seeing widespread deployment?
  8. What needs to still happen before M-ABR will become a reality?
  9. How does M-ABR work in conjunction with other streaming latency-reducing technologies like WebRTC? Is it needed? Are these approaches mutually-exclusive? Is M-ABR just one component of the overall solution to reducing delivery latency or is it the “silver bullet?”
  10. Will M-ABR be needed when 5G is widely deployed?
  11. What is the one piece of advice you can give network operators considering deployment of M-ABR?

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