next generation iptv services and technologies
By:Gerard O'Driscoll

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Description:
With a focus on changing job tasks and knowledge
requirements for professionals, this book enables
readers to meet the demands of designing,
implementing, and supporting end-to-end IPTV
systems. Additionally, it examines IPTV technical
subjects that are not included in any other single
reference to date: Quality of Experience (QoE),
techniques for speeding up IPTV channel changing
times, IPTV CD software architecture, Whole Home
Media Networking (WHMN), IP-based high-definition
TV, interactive IPTV applications, and the daily
management of IPTV networks.
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Table of contents:
Dedications.
Preface.
Organizational and Topical Coverage.
Who should read this book.
Acknowledgements.
About the Author.
Foreword.
Chapter 1. The Ultimate Viewing Experience.
1.1 Defining IPTV.
1.2 Differences between IPTV and Internet TV.
1.3 Overview of an IPTV Networking
Infrastructure.
1.4 Key IPTV Applications and Services.
1.5 Growth Drivers for IPTV.
1.6 Market Data.
1.7 Industry Initiatives to Standardize IPTV.
1.8 Summary.
Chapter 2. IPTV Network Distribution
Technologies.
2.1 'Last Mile' Broadband Distribution Network
Types.
2.2 IPTV over a Fiber Access Network.
2.3 IPTV over an ADSL Network.
2.4 Next Generation Cable TV Networks.
2.5 IPTV over a Satellite Based Network.
2.6 IPTV over Wireless Networks.
2.7 IPTV over the Interne t.
2.8 IPTV Backbone Technologies.
2.9 Network Factors Associated with Deploying
IPTV.
2.10 Summary.
Chapter 3. IPTV Real Time Encoding and
Transportation.
3.1 Introduction to Real-Time Encoding.
3.2 Compression Methods.
3.3 Packetizing and Encapsulating Video
Content.
3.4 Summary.
Chapter 4. Broadcasting Linear Programming over
IPTV.
4.1 Underlying Video Components of an end-to-end
IPTV System.
4.2 Different Approaches to Streaming IPTV
Content.
4.3 Multicasting across an IPTV Network.
4.4 IPTV Multicasting Networking Architecture.
4.5 Multicasting IPTV Content across IPV6
Networks.
4.6 Introduction to Channel Changing.
4.7 Fundamentals of Channel Changing.
4.8 Techniques for Speeding up IPTV Channel
Changing Times.
4.9 Discovering Channel Program Information.
4.10 Time Shifting Multicast IPTV.
4.11 Channel Changing Industry Initiatives.
4.12 Summary.
Chapter 5. IPTV Consumer Devices (IPTVCDs).
5.1 About Residential Gateways.
5.2 RG Technology Architecture.
5.3 RG Functionality.
5.4 RG Industry Standards.
5.5 Introduction to Digital Set-top Boxes.
5.6 The Evolution of Digital Set-top Boxes.
5.7 Categories of Digital Set-top Boxes.
5.8 Major Technological Trends for Digital
Set-Top Boxes.
5.9 IP Set-top Boxes Defined.
5.10 Types of IP Set-top Boxes.
5.11 Other Emerging IPTV Consumer Devices.
5.12 Summary.
Chapter 6. IPTVCD Software Architecture.
6.1 What Makes an IPTVCD Tick?
6.2 Interactive TV Middleware Standards.
6.3 Proprietary Middleware Solutions.
6.4 Summary.
Chapter 7. IPTV Conditional Access and DRM
Systems.
7.1 Introduction to IPTV Security.
7.2 Defining IPTV CA Security Systems.
7.3 CA Industry Initiatives.
7.4 Introduction to Next Generation DRM
Solutions.
7.5 IPTV Intranet Protection.
7.6 Summary.
Chapter 8. Moving IPTV around the House.
8.1 About Whole Home Media Networking (WHMN).
8.2 WHMN Enabling Technologies.
8.3 Fast Ethernet & Gigabit Ethernet
(GigE).
8.4 802.11n.
8.5 HomePlug AV.
8.6 UPA-DHS.
8.7 HomePNAΓäó 3.1.
8.8 WHMN Middleware Software Standards.
8.9 QoS and WHMN Applications.
8.10 Summary.
Chapter 9. Video-on-Demand (VoD) over IP Delivery
Networks.
9.1 History of Pay-Per-View.
9.2 Understanding PPV.
9.3 The Emergence of RF and IP Based VoD.
9.4 Types of IP-VoD Services.
9.5 Underlying Building Blocks of an end-to-end
IP-VoD Infrastructure.
9.6 Video Server Architectures.
9.7 Integrating IP-VoD Applications with other IP
based Services.
9.8 Protecting IP-VoD Content.
9.9 Summary.
Chapter 10. IP Based High Definition TV.
10.1 Overview of SDTV and HDTV Technologies.
10.2 HDTV over IP Defined.
10.3 An end-to-end IP HDTV System.
10.4 Summary.
Chapter 11. Interactive IPTV applications.
11.1 The Evolution of iTV.
11.2 About iTV.
11.3 Interactive IPTV Applications.
11.4 IPTV Program Related Interaction
Applications.
11.5 Deploying Interactive IPTV Applications.
11.6 Accessibility to IPTV Services.
11.7 Summary.
Chapter 12. IPTV Network Administration.
12.1 An Introduction to IPTV Network
Administration.
12.2 Supporting the IPTV Networking Management
System (NMS).
12.3 Managing Installation, Service Problems, and
Terminations.
12.4 Network Testing and Monitoring.
12.5 Ensuring Service Availability and Managing
Redundancy.
12.6 IP Address Space Management.
12.7 Routine IT and Network Administrative
Tasks.
12.8 Managing IPTV Quality of Service (QoS)
Requirements.
12.9 Monitoring the IPTV Subscriber
Experience.
12.10 Remotely Managing in-Home Digital Consumer
Devices.
12.11 Scheduling and Managing Delivery of
Software Updates to IPTVCDs.
12.12 Troubleshooting IPTV Problems.
12.13 IPTV and Business Continuity Planning.
12.14 Summary.
Index.
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# Hardcover: 512 pages
# Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0470163720
# ISBN-13: 978-0470163726
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