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. .

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The lack of available MPEG-4 content is a serious issue for providers as they upgrade their networks to MPEG-4. Fortunately, the recent availability of integrated transcoders, to convert widely available MPEG-2 content into MPEG-4 AVC, makes these new delivery networks viablecompetitors to cable and satellite TV services