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Executive Perspectives
One-on-one interviews with industry leaders
Ram Kumar Ram Kumar
Associate Vice President, Product Engineering
Infosys Technologies
Q.
How are IMS and DLNA about to change the concept of TV?
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Rami Houbby Rami Houbby
Vice President - Strategic Accounts and Alliances
Allied Telesis International
Q.
IPTV is one of the first IP applications to really take off in the marketplace. What are your thoughts on where IPTV is headed?
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Technology Briefing
White papers covering news, studies, and trends

Traditionally, the responsibility for video transmission has belonged to the video engineers, who dealt with coaxial cables and antennas. However, with the recent intense growth of telecommunications infrastructure, responsibility for video transmission is now substantially shared by network engineers. The rapid maturing of advanced digital video compression technologies such as Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG) is strengthening this trend … Continue reading

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Web ProForum
Tutorials featuring technical and business issues
Broadband Loop Carrier: Enabling Video in a Triple-Play Architecture
A Classic Web ProForum from the IEC Online Education Archives

This tutorial will address how access networks must change to meet the triple-play bandwidth and service-delivery challenge. They must change to provide high-capacity bandwidth that handles the traffic efficiently to deliver the following:
  • IP-based broadcast video and video on demand (VoD)
  • High-speed IP-based data services, including gigabit Ethernet
  • Voice over IP (VoIP)

Definition and Overview

  1. Introduction
  2. The Triple-Play Architecture
  3. Meeting the Video Bandwidth Challenge
  4. The IP/Ethernet Advantage
  5. Making IP and Ethernet into Public Carrier Technologies
  6. Conclusion
  7. Self-Test
Analyst Corner
Perspectives from leading information industry experts
Analyst Corner PDF Interview Summary
Chris Bray speaks on the importance of advances in communication and networking capabilities, and on the new industry, revenue, and enterprise models that will drive business innovation for competitive advantage.


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