Sanremo and Internet traffic in Italy
The Sanremo Festival is the most important and prestigious music event in Italy. It’s an Italian song festival held annually in Sanremo, a city on the Ligurian coast. The festival was inaugurated in 1951 and has since become a staple for Italian music. The event is organized by RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana), Italy’s main public broadcaster […]
BGP in the EVPN model
When it comes to LAN emulation services, the Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) model has many defects that prevent its use in advanced scenarios of major interest, such as the interconnection of data centres (a service often called Data Centre Interconnection (DCI)). This is why a new model for LAN emulation services — known as […]
“The elephant effect” Considerations on the phenomenon of streaming football in Italy and the operators’ point of view
Foreword. For the first time in Italy, a major event such as the Serie A championship is being broadcast, for most matches, exclusively via the Internet. We are not talking about the distribution of on-demand content, drawing on a ready-made archive at the moment, but about live streaming, the transmission of live content. The broadcaster […]
“The elephant effect” considerazioni sul fenomeno del calcio in streaming in Italia e il punto di vista degli operatori
English versione available here. Premessa. Per la prima volta in Italia, un evento di grande portata come il campionato di Serie A viene trasmesso, per la maggior parte delle partite, solo ed esclusivamente attraverso Internet. Questo è il cambiamento più grande. Non si parla di distribuzione di contenuti on-demand, attingendo sul momento ad un archivio […]
