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Originally Posted by Horizon
One more question, Spiderplant, in a all fibre world (yes, I know its not), would there be any need for all the regional headends? Couldn't everything just be pumped from the centre?
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Again not my area of expertise, but it isn't just a case of "pumping stuff out". You also need to get data back in from millions of devices and coalesce it. The speed of light is often a limiting factor in these things - at long distances the round-trip times get too long for the protocols to work properly. Broadcast TV is already mostly centralised.
Anyway, don't hold your breath. VM are currently building a few new hubsites.