00000cab a22000003a 4500 UP-99796217608485195 Buklod 20231007234024.0 m |o d | ta 080827s xx d | ||r ||||| || DENGII eng Will IPTV ride the peer-to-peer stream?. pp. 86-92 The great success of P2P systems for the purpose of file-sharing set the path to the next killer application on the Internet, P2P video streaming. Although it solves scalability issues, P2P technology experiences problems of a long start time and churn-induced instability that can greatly affect the user experience. Moreover, technical and business solutions for digital rights management are still under investigation. Great efforts are underway in both academia and industry to solve these problems, whose solution will offer a scalable, affordable, and legal TV-quality-like broadcast of content. In this article, we analyze what is available to the end user in terms of P2P video-streaming products and determine which of these are the most promising for IPTV and content distribution companies. In the following, we offer: (1) A survey of the available architectures. (2) A set of experiments on a popular peer-to-peer system, SopCast. (3) Guidelines for large scale deployment. IPTV. Internet. P2P video streaming. SopCast. TV-quality-like content broadcast. Content distribution. Digital rights management. File-sharing. Peer-to-peer stream. Sentinelli, Alexandro. IEEE Communications magazine 45, 6 (2007). FO UPD DENG-II Article