Making TV Meaningful: Consumers and IPTV Applications

This whitepaper from Parks Associates examines the growing IPTV market. Although it is quite early to define an “ideal” market model, telecom operators have to follow a strategic approach by mapping out the key components necessary for the efficient operation of the IPTV infrastructure.

Effective IPTV Network Management: An Evolutionary Solution

This white paper highlights the competitive advantages MaxView provides network operators for managing complex IPTV networks. It presents a top-level discussion of this complex domain and explains how MaxView provides a superior end-to-end video network management solution that can scale to incorporate both existing and anticipated technologies and component systems.

The Future of IPTV: Business and Technology Challenges

This whitepaper by ECI Telecom discusses the technological barriers that DSL providers face in supporting video applications while upgrading their current ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode)networks.

Texas Instruments Whitepaper: Driving IPTV Growth: The Challenges and Perspectives

This whitepaper from Texas Instruments examines the challenges inherent in delivering IPTV services to customers.

Understanding MPEG-4: Technologies, Advantages and Markets

Building on the enormous success of the MPEG1 and MPEG2 standards, MPEG4 offers new audio and video codecs with twice the performance of MPEG2 enabling new services ranging from HDTV satellite broadcasting to mobile video and games on handheld devices. This whitepaper from the MPEG Industry Forum looks in depth at the potential and properties of MPEG-4.  

IBM and the IPTV Market

The following two papers from IBM describe their involvement with the IPTV market as solution providers utilising open-standards technology.

Broadband Architectures to go Above and Beyond Triple Play

This paper from Operax explores how the value of an open connectionless broadband network can be leveraged with walled garden concepts. The architectural implications for triple play networks are discussed, and the importance of bandwidth and policy management is established.

RBC Capital Markets: Finding the Right Investments in IPTV

RBC Capital Markets is an international corporate and investment bank, offering customized products and services to institutions, corporations, governments and high net worth clients around the world. This in-depth report looks at the forthcoming investment opportunities around IPTV services.

Reality TV: Cutting Through the IPTV Hype

There are two main questions for a service provider to consider when looking to make IPTV successful;

1) What will make a consumer change from their current TV service to an IPTV service? 2) What will make the consumer purchase TV services from a company they are not familiar with providing this type of product?

In this report, Intec's IPTV Marketing Manager looks to provide some answers to these key questions, looking at defining the product and branding and marketing of services.

Skystream Networks Whitepaper: Realising the Potential of Your MPEG-4 Network

MPEG-4 provides the necessary bandwidth savings to level the playing field for telcos when competing against cable and satellite operators. This is only significant, however, if telcos can truly take advantage of all that MPEG-4 has to offer. .