Iptv

Telecomm companies across the globe are losing their traditional business to internet telephony, mobile phones and cable phones. IPTV provides TV operators with an opportunity to enter the vast pay TV marketplace. The television is one of the most common devices in the world, with some 1.5 billion TV sets in use. In IPTV control of programmes is distributed. Operators can central to the business plans of broadband networks operators worldwide. IPTV offers organizations an efficient way to deliver business communications to their employees.With IPTV, every networked user throughout an enterprise can watch management broadcasts, training programs, university classes, business TV, satellite communications, and other programs from the convenience of their own desk. The IPTV system can be divided into content and services, server software, delivery methods and receiver software. It uses network friendly IP multicast, is extremely efficient for large audience.

The IPTV delivery system has the following four major components are Headend, Video Servers, Middleware, IP Set-Top Box. The four main local distribution schemes for video on demand go by the acronyms ADSL, FTTC, FTTH and HFC. IPTV eliminates the headache involved with physical media. MPEG Standards. is the heart of the matter: the MPEG (Motion Picture Experts Group) standards. These are the main algorithm used to compress video and have been international standards since 1993. The next standard in the MPEG family was MPEG-2, which was originally designed for compressing broadcast-quality video into 4 to 6 Mbps. MPEG-4 Envivio, a leading provider of complete MPEG-4 solutions, has already started shipping its MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 live encoder systems to customer worldwide.The government and academic institutions are either already deploying skeletal IPTV solutions or are considering it for the future. In our home, IPTV could change the way you view television today.

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