[Starlink] Re: SCONE, bandwidth indeterminacy and network to host signals (was Re: Re: Starlink Digest, Vol 53, Issue 14)

["David Fernández" <davidfdzp@gmail.com>]

Ok, yes, now I remember, this, here:
https://www.adslzone.net/noticias/operadores/telefonica-meta-limitar-consumo-datos-videos-cortos
Telefónica and Meta collaborating so that Telefónica tells Meta by an API
(to be standardized by IETF SCONEPRO), that it should reduce the
resolution, or not to push so many videos in advance in the infinite
scrolls of users of Instagram that are located in congested base stations,
e.g. serving a lot of users or to users with poor coverage.

The GSMA calls it Open Gateway (and it uses CAMARA APIs) and I think it can
do the same. The network operators offer an API to developers of websites
and applications to get info from the network.

Vodafone and Broadcom have also been doing similar experiments,
implementing an API that informs major short video websites (YouTube, Meta,
TikTok...) of network conditions, so the operators provide info
preventively, on request.
https://www.diariosigloxxi.com/texto-ep/mostrar/20240227134501/vodafone-broadcom-desarrollan-tecnologia-reducir-red-proveedores-contenido

IMHO, this is an automation of what happened when COVID started, that
streamers stopped pushing 4K video, just HD, to avoid a possible collapse
while everybody stayed at home confined.

Now that Starlink is evolving also into a kind of MNO, we may see them also
implementing this. Well, any operator of a network may implement this, if
it helps to save money and to keep the network more stable, which seems to
be the objective.

Regards,

David

On Tue, 30 Sept 2025 at 16:42, Livingood, Jason <Jason_Livingood@comcast.com>
wrote:

> >> AFAIK, the objective of SCONE is " improve slow-start in general", not
> only
> >> for video, but I must confess I am not following it closely.
>
> > Not seeing that objective clearly in the SCONE group/working group or
> ID, but I might have overlooked that.
>
> IIRC one of the initial presentations was from Google on “Plan Aware
> Streaming” – see
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/119/materials/slides-119-sconepro-youtube-plan-aware-streaming-01.pdf.
>
>
> JL
>