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

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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Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE Communications magazine 38, 11 (2000).
Main Author: Hastings, K.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
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.