TV Bank Announces BB broadcast


TV Bank Announces BB broadcast

TV bank, owned by Japan’s Softbank group, announced their so-called “BB broadcast” system is able to deliver video contents of higher resolution to 10’s of thousands of con-current end users on DSL speed connections via the companies Yahoo.jp portal. When a recent live broadcast of the popular EXILE competition was delivered — at 768kb — a total of 46,904 viewers were achieved using this transmission method with only about 1/5 of the bandwidth required compared to unicast. According to the statement, the delivery method used a technology called overlay multicast (OLM: Overlay Multicast) which is an “evolved multicast” technology that was apparently developed by Beijing’s Roxbeam Media Network.

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