IPTV

Last month after the mnNOG 5 event in Mongolia, I got a chance to visit Skytel’s IPTV headend. Skytel is one of the large Mongolian operators doing mobile and fixed-line networks. Tour of network infrastructure is always interesting and this time it was not just IP but broadcast network over the IP which excited me. In past, I have visited datacenters, IXPs etc and those are mostly IP (layer 3) or ethernet (layer 2) networks. This was the first time a tour of the broadcast infrastructure. Special thanks to friends from Skytel especially my friend Tuvshuu from the IP broadcast network team for arranging this tour of this infrastructure.