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Depends where the radio is coming from. The internet is horribly inefficient for this sort of application. Assume in a city everyone has a 5Mb/s pipe into their house at 20:1 contention would saturate if everyone had a continuous 256kbit/s internet radio feed using overly simplistic traffic modelling.
If everyone was on FTTC then the problem moves further up the chain.
If everyone was on FTTC then the problem moves further up the chain.
some stats for UK online radio listening. http://www.rajar.co.uk/docs/news/RAJAR_DataRelease_InfographicQ32015.pdf
does the internet have enough bandwidth in large population centres ?
Without question. Major competitions streamed on Twitch regularly get a quarter million simultaneous viewers pulling up to 1080 video streams. Netflix dwarfs anything radio does. With connected cars at the cusp of widespread adoption broadcasters are already scrambling to become 'generic content providers', making product available any way it can be consumed. Especially streaming.
Without question. Major competitions streamed on Twitch regularly get a quarter million simultaneous viewers pulling up to 1080 video streams. Netflix dwarfs anything radio does. With connected cars at the cusp of widespread adoption broadcasters are already scrambling to become 'generic content providers', making product available any way it can be consumed. Especially streaming.
Twitch is 250k users GLOBALLY, not 4 million in one city and 50 on the same street. Different issue and different problem to solve. However 'meh they'll up the bandwidth till it works' does seem to be the world view on this.
BTW: connected cars are likely to be a bucket of fail for some years.
Twitch is 250k users GLOBALLY, not 4 million in one city and 50 on the same street. Different issue and different problem to solve. However 'meh they'll up the bandwidth till it works' does seem to be the world view on this.
BTW: connected cars are likely to be a bucket of fail for some years.
Fortunately I don't live in a wood cabin. Fifty on this street is ridiculously nothing, most radio station streams are well under 100K and one video stream commonly eats as much fifty audio.
You missed the gist of the Twitch point and other major CDNs. Their clients may be thinly distributed, their originating points are not and the Internet handles them fine. Likewise YouTube, Akamai, etc.. The main thing limiting universal adoption of streaming radio is wireless costs and those constantly fall.
Well over here in civilisation Internet radio from the quality sources is 320kb/s. We are not talking about the backbone, but the ability of the distribution network to handle things without everyone having to pay up for FTTC services.
FWIW wireless it batsrad expensive. BBC are taking one channel online only to save the cost of the multiplex slot.
FWIW wireless it batsrad expensive. BBC are taking one channel online only to save the cost of the multiplex slot.
Well over here in civilisation Internet radio from the quality sources is 320kb/s.
I randomly pulled up CBSN on the television this morning (cable internet + Kodi on a mini pc) and watched 4 Mb/s streams in 1080. It's not a top tier service, my provider recently completed a frantic infrastructure upgrade in preparation for 4K streaming. Audio isn't an afterthought in this landscape.
Without question. Major competitions streamed on Twitch regularly get a quarter million simultaneous viewers pulling up to 1080 video streams. Netflix dwarfs anything radio does. With connected cars at the cusp of widespread adoption broadcasters are already scrambling to become 'generic content providers', making product available any way it can be consumed. Especially streaming.
^^^ Correct, audio is small compared to what is really going on with the internet
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