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[Digital Society] Digital Society » Blog Archive » Test data disproves Free Press ...: We know that the ping tool is fairly good at predicting problems for real-world applications.  If the ping is volatile and high, applications that are latency and jitter sensitive will suffer.  Furthermore, we know that FTTN VDSL2 service has millions of users and none of them complain about high jitter when the packet prioritization is engaged.  I have verified this myself during the countless times I play online with my friend while his family watches the prioritized IPTV service, and I can see that his latency shown on the score board inside the game remains very stable.  He also reports that IPTV doesn’t cause any latency problems for him.  Since online gaming applications are the most sensitive to jitter than any other application, it is the perfect proxy to measure the impact on other applications which are less jitter sensitive.

[ARROW@DIT] ARROW@DIT - Patrick McDonagh, Philip Perry, and Liam Murphy: QoS ...: The aim of this paper is to describe how QoS (Quality of Service) metrics such as packet delay can be used to optimise the routing algorithms used in a network where IP Television (IPTV) content is being distributed. We outline the usage of metric instrumentation in a network to gauge the bandwidth limits of the network and how to use this information to generate a model of network link utilisation.

[Digital Society] Digital Society » Blog Archive » Don't outlaw successful business ...: 3458 seem to mirror Google’s concerns.  Google is the largest online video distributor on the Internet which puts them at odds with traditional managed delivery television services.  While Google says that providing managed IP services and proprietary content like Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) should be permissible, they want the means of providing those managed services to be outlawed.  IPTV needs to be prioritized based on where it’s coming from so by prohibiting prioritized data packet delivery based on the ownership or affiliation, it leaves us with some brutally inefficient options.  Google and other Net Neutrality proponents justify this by saying that managed services should only be permitted if it does not “diminish” or “poach”

[ConvergedWire Solutions] The Time is Right for IPTV : ConvergedWire Solutions: On the creation side, barriers to entry for alternative content producers are negligible, as broadcast-quality video production equipment has become affordable for almost anyone. Amateurs recording local community events such as sports or school graduation ceremonies, can now create summary programs from their hours of video, align separate audio and video tracks from different devices and add video effects such as fades from one camera or scene to another.

[Matthew Midura's Blog] Matthew Midura's Blog » Blog Archive » IPTV - Technology Brief: Although the full potential of this technology has yet to be realized, Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) has begun to foreshadow a convergence of broadcast, internet, and telephone technologies that could mark a new era in communications for consumers, educators, and companies alike. The proliferation of broadband internet connectivity combined with enhancements in video compression technology has created quite a bit of buzz surrounding the concept of IPTV.

[BriefingRoom on TelephonyOnline] Nortel CVAS and Sigma Systems Supports Delivery of Advanced IP ...: TORONTO ”” Continuing its efforts to boost service provider revenue potential and ability to deliver the latest business voice and multimedia IP solutions to end users, Nortel* [OTC: NRTLQ] Carrier VoIP and Application Solutions (CVAS) and Sigma Systems announced a new agreement to supply technology and services for Bell Aliant’s network across Atlantic Canada. Nortel’s market-leading CVAS solutions combined with Sigma Systems’ Service Management Portfolio of fulfillment solutions will allow Bell Aliant to deliver advanced VoIP, high-speed data and video/IPTV services to residential and business subscribers.

[IPTV News] IPTV Wireless STB: Foreseeing the evolution of High Definition multimedia, the Pisces®111 IP-STB is designed for streaming True Full-HD video content (up to 1080p) through a “Wireless” way— with new IEEE 802.11n technology— to avoid the hassle of wiring new cable in the home.

[p2pnet news] p2pnet news » Blog Archive » Phorm and DPI: Alex Hanff: “The need for both parties to consent to interception in order for it to be lawful is an extremely basic principle under RIPA, and it cannot be lightly ignored or treated as a technicality. Even when the police are investigating as serious a crime as kidnapping, for example, and need to listen in to conversations between a family and the criminals, they must first obtain an authorisation under the Act: the consent of the family is not by itself sufficient to make their monitoring lawful.”

[IPTV News] IPTV Service Assurance: “When it comes to IPTV, picture quality and response times are everything, as users have very high expectations and a low tolerance for anything but a positive experience,” said Michael Howard, principal analyst and co-founder of Infonetics Research, a market research and consulting firm. “With Brix Networks’ converged service assurance solutions, providers can verify the performance of their bundled offerings - including data, video, voice, and mobile - and thereby assure their subscribers’ quality of experience for any IP-based service, over any network, to any endpoint.”

[Digital Society] Digital Society » Blog Archive » FCC 5th principle must allow for ...: Regardless of what some Internet companies who don’t have to spend billions of their own dollars in building the broadband networks may think, it is reasonable for a Telco to dynamically set aside a portion of the physical network infrastructure they invested heavily in to offer services like telephone or television service in addition to broadband services.  This is no different than a cable TV company statically setting aside 95% of its physical coax cable infrastructure to television services and the remaining for Internet capacity.  The difference here is that dynamic bandwidth allocation used in IPTV allows the consumer to reclaim their television bandwidth for Internet access when they choose to turn the television off.  Without IPTV prioritization, Internet activity can easily disrupt television services which consumers simply won’t tolerate.  Not prioritizing IPTV would force consumers to choose between using the Internet and watching IPTV but not both at the same time.

[p2pnet news] p2pnet news » Blog Archive » New Bell Canada CRTC submission: Nemertes Research (Nemertes) conducted an in-depth analysis of Internet and IP infrastructure (capacity) as well as current and projected traffic (demand) in order to determine if there will ever be a point where demand exceeds capacity.57 The Nemertes Study examines demand independent of capacity in order to control for the situation where capacity may be limiting demand.58 The Nemertes approach was to focus on the absolute busy hour characteristics of a user group rather than trying to determine a comprehensive user demand profile over time.59 Figure 8 below shows the results of the Nemertes model of user demand for the U.S. By 2012 demand would reach 200,000 PB which is the same as an individual user consuming or generating 26 GB per day.60 While the results of the Nemertes model yield geometric growth in demand, it should be noted that the model also states that in 2006, an individual user consumed or generated about 350 MB per day which is equivalent to downloading an hour of Internet video or multiple hours of working, emailing, uploading, downloading and watching video.61 It is noteworthy that 350 MB per day translates into approximately 10.5 GB per month.

[Digital Society] Digital Society » Blog Archive » FCC NPRM ban on Paid Peering ...: But even if we assume your interpretation that this only bans prioritization to be accurate (and it isn’t an accurate assumption), why ban additional prioritization over that link? If the end-user only paid for best-effort and corresponding infrastructure, why would we prohibit the content provider from paying for additional delivery characteristics with improved infrastructure?

[Comments for Wikinomics] Wikinomics - Guest Blogger Josh Beil: For successful IPTV, look to ...: Your myTV channel pops up and you begin to scan your customized start channel, which shows you what shows have recorded on your DVR, what shows on network TV you might like based on your recent viewing habits as well as what your social network is watching, the top UGC clips of the day from YouTube and other video sharing sites, as well as a robust search engine that will allow you to find and download virtually any TV show or movie every published, at costs ranging from free to $19.99 per download. Furthermore, with a couple clicks on this page through your remote, you can send content to your wireless device or your car’s hard drive over your home network - a virtual digital content consumption utopia.

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