BY MUKESH KUMAR
*IPTV
IPTV is a system through which digital television service is delivered using the Internet architecture and networking methods, instead of delivered through traditional radio frequency broadcast, satellite signal, and cable television formats IPTV and Internet TV (competitors) IPTV delivered to TV set, not PC IP set-top box (STB) IPTV is provided by a few LARGE telecom providers Internet TV: anyone can create an endpoint and publish that on a global basis. (YouTube)
Internet TV
Transport Geographical Reach Service quality Use general internet Can be access from anywhere in the globe Not guaranteed
IPTV
Use dedicated, private network Limited by service provider Guarantees high quality audio and video
Basic and Premium Television Interactive TV / Two way communication HDTV Video on Demand Time shifted TV Instant Messaging Gaming and Betting on Demand Web and e-mail
More control over service for user What to watch and when to watch More interactive Better Quality DVD quality video, CD quality music Personalization Convergence Single device to watch TV, surf web and video calling PC is not attractive due to lower picture quality, cost and boot time
Content Production
Content Aggregation
Content Delivery
Content Reproduction
Program Production
TV Stations
TV Sets
End User
IPTV Content Delivery: TV Head End IPTV Middleware VOD Systems Media Content Protection Systems (DRM) IP STB
Bandwidth requirements for streaming High bandwidth continuously Last mile is the problem DSL originally employed for burst (web) traffic, Not support MPEG-2 Need to compress the video streams Reducing channel change time Due to multicasting it takes time Providing VoD Need to unicast messages
Home Network
IP Core Network
Acquiring video from different sources Video Encoding VoD delivering Content security
Conditional Access System (CAS) Digital Rights Management (DRM)
MPEG Encode r
Live TV
Media Stream er
CAS DRM
VoD Server
OBS S
From IPTV Data Center to the subscriber 1.Fiber 2.DSL 3.Cable TV 4.Satellite 5.Wireless Broadband 6.Internet
11.00% 2.00%
22.00% 65.00%
IPTV hardware and software infrastructure at customer premises Runs the IPTV middleware at client side Decrypt the scrambled video stream Video decoding Produce composite (analog) video output Program navigation with EPG
Hardware drivers and media codec Operating system and network stack IPTV Client TCP/IP Stack TV browser Various plug-ins
Video Encoding
Improvement in compression to reduce BW requirement
REFERENCES
www.digitalopportunity.org/ www.rapidtvnews.com/ www.iptv-news.com/ www.brown.edu/ www.dslreports.com/