Challenges and opportunities of delivering IP-based residential television services.

This article describes the main challenges of implementing an end-to-end architecture for delivery of high-quality, IP-based residential TV services to residential customers. The IP-based approach can be implemented with an IP multicast overlay network with traditional routers or use IP-multicast-aw...

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I publikationen:	IEEE Communications magazine 38, 11 (2000).
Huvudupphovsman:	Hastings, K.
Materialtyp:	Artikel
Språk:	English
Ämnen:	ASDL. CATV architectures. IP multicast overlay network. IP-based residential television services. IP-multicast-aware ATM switching systems. Internet technology. MPEG-2 broadcast video transport. QoS requirements. VDSL. Access architecture. Access bandwidth. Business. Copper-based architectures. Head-end. Head-end architecture. Interactive entertainment. Residential customers. Routers. Traffic engineering. Video channel manipulation. Video traffic management.