What’s often missed when discussing today’s broadband services to the home is the business infrastructure that often sits behind them. Consider, for examplethe official site of.

Major League Baseball, which offers subscribers access to HD-quality video for a full season of games, 2430 in all. While subscribers’ experiences are ultimately governed by their individual broadband speeds, MLB.com needs a mighty network to move all that video between stadiums and its home servers in New York City.