Ensuring IPTV Service Quality While Migrating to MPEG4 And HDTV

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Ensuring IPTV Service Quality While Migrating to MPEG4 And HDTV

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  • Author: Robert Fitts
Many wireline-oriented network service providers have been providing IPTV to their DSL subscribers for quite some time now. In fact, with the advent of bonded ADSL2+, VDSL2, and the installation of remote DSLAMs closer to consumers, carriers are now able to offer DSL services at rates that are higher than ever. Coupled with more efficient video compression algorithms such as MPEG4, it is possible that many carriers will choose to delay fiberto-the-home (FTTH) strategies, at least for a few more years. Instead, fiber will be brought within 3,000 to 4,000 feet of the subscriber base and VDSL2- based DSLAMs will deliver IPTV services using the installed base of outside-plant cabling.

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