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Assuring Quality of Experience for IPTV

Overview As IP TeleVision (IPTV) evolves from its infancy into a large worldwide market, it's important to understand the factors that are shaping its evolution. This introduction explains the importance of IPTV/Video On Demand (VOD) services, explores how the nature of these services creates challenges for network architects - and then examines the network innovations proposed to overcome those challenges.

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Publisher	Light Reading	File Format	PDF
Date Published	July 2006	Downloads	42
Format	White Papers
Topics	Quality of Service, Bandwidth Issues

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Tags:
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Tags:
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Channel:
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Sprint Nextel already looking to 4G

But some handsets are also supported, providing consumers with mobile music, games and television. But mobile operators are nervous about using their 3G networks, which were not built for broadcasting television.

CIOs lack skills for growth

New IT-driven business model innovations will only appear when organisations achieve the right balance of the two key roles of the CIO - one as 'chief innovation officer' and the other as 'chief implementation officer'.

Kangaroo tech to get ITV kiss of life?

The spokeswoman also noted that when work on Kangaroo started, ITV's online on-demand service, called ITV Player, was in its infancy. BT's IPTV service] BT Vision is not a product that's becoming mainstream… it may be that [BT] needs the injection...

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Tags:
bbc,
bt,
itv,
kangaroo

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