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by lxgr 432 days ago
> If you have a "cable TV" box that plugs into your fiber internet connection, it's probably receiving multicast UDP.

That's a good point: I suppose it's a big advantage being able to serve the same, unmodified MPEG transport stream from a CDN, as IP multicast over DOCSIS/GPON, and as DVB-C (although I’m not sure that works like that, as DVB usually has multiple programs per transponder/transport stream).