IPTV Broadcast Production & Post Content Show Highlights Mobile TV Out-of-Home Media

For those pushing fiber all the way to end-users, technology has evolved to help as well. As more fiber is deployed, the cost of fiber access technologies has come down. In addition, new innovations have made installation easier. Some companies have developed ex-tra-bendable fiber that allows

IPTV and Switched

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installers to more easily wind glass fiber around, for example, apartment buildings where twists and turns are rife, and

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staple fiber down – all without

Despite the slowdown in the economy, Infonetics

sacrificing signal quality. In

Research is forecasting revenue from the sale of IPTV

addition, the customer prem-

and Switched Digital Video equipment to climb to

ises equipment in fiber-to-the-

about $10 billion in 2011. (Source: Infonetics Research,

premises networks – optical

IPTV & Switched Digital Video Equipment Services &

Subscribers, Worldwide Market Share & Forecasts 3Q08.)

network terminals (ONTs) – has evolved to move from the side distribute content more efficient- which is dedicated to finding of the house to indoors, adopt- ly. Last fall, Verizon Communica- ways to improve P2P technology ing along the way the functions tions announced plans for a new for use in tomorrow’s content of a broadband home router. content delivery network (CdN) delivery networks.

And as they evolve further, they built on gear that specializes in Equipment vendors also will become smaller and more P2P distribution. Though Verizon are working hard to build the elegant to accommodate con- isn’t using the P2P capabilities networks of tomorrow that will sumer aesthetics. of the system yet – for its first move beyond the blind shovel-

As service providers work use, the Starz Play on-demand ing of bits to prioritizing time-to increase the bandwidth on offering – it has unmistakably sensitive video applications and their networks, they’re also opened the door to that pos- ensure they have the bandwidth working to find more-efficient sibility in the future. At industry required to be delivered with ways to distribute video traffic, events, Verizon executives have the service quality they demand. in part to lower some of those already spoken about the poten- despite the controversies sur-bandwidth requirements. tial benefits of using, for example, rounding deep-packet inspec-

Some service providers are consumer set-top boxes as P2P tion technologies, which can be even beginning to use peer-to- nodes, letting users draw con- used to gain visibility into net-peer (P2P) technologies – his- tent from one another’s homes. work traffic for the purpose of torically the source of endless Verizon has also begun work on discerning service and applica-debates over content piracy and an industry standards organiza- tion types, equipment vendors bandwidth-hogging – to help tion, the P4P Working group, continued on page 28