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IPTV Challenges and Metrics

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IPTV Challenges and Metrics

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  • Author: Florin Hodis
IPTV, one of the components of triple-play services, is being used by traditional wireline carriers as a way to leverage their DSL customer base, in order to quickly and efficiently enter the broadcast TV and other video-content delivery markets. Even the cable MSOs see the value in IPTV as they migrate their networks from the legacy analog and digital channel overlay technologies towards allbroadband IP networks IPTV was initially designed and optimized to work over DSL circuits. Traditional cable TV coaxial networks worked on the premise that all channels were delivered to all subscribers all of the time. In contrast, the IPTV system optimizes bandwidth by delivering a small number of channels to each consumer, without reducing channel availability.

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