IPTV: Technology and Development Predictions

Pfeffer, Patrick

doi:10.1080/01468030600816979

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“…The existing fund of IPTV business model literature is limited. There is an extensive body of research on IPTV technological development (Pfeffer, 2006 and Cisco, 2005) and there has been much discussion on revenue/profit generation capabilities (e.g. Liu, 2006).…”

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A business model for IPTV service: a dynamic framework

Bouwman

Zhengjia

Duin

et al. 2008

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate a possible business model for telecom operators for entering the IPTV (digital television) market.Design/methodology/approachThe approach takes the form of a case study, literature search and interviews.FindingsThe IPTV business model always has to adjust to the change of external factors and uncertainties in the exploration and the exploitation phase. The four scenarios presented in this paper explicitly address the demand, regulatory and competition‐related uncertainties. The scenarios represent the different future possibilities in terms of regulatory environment, industry structure and consumer attitudes towards (IP)TV service. By choosing the right business model, telecom operators can sustain the market competition and deliver customer value and economic benefits. In the light of limited resources, when balancing the requirement of IPTV business model design, telecom operators have to focus on the critical design issues in each of the scenarios.Research limitations/implicationsThis is a one‐case study, so no cross‐analysis with other cases was possible.Practical implicationsThe research does not stop when the critical design issues have been analysed, but takes them a step further to shed light on the viability of the business model in an exploration phase. This is done by integrating the business model framework analysis with scenario analysis. Scenario analysis indicates various future possibilities and provides a platform for analyzing the decisions regarding critical design issues that have to be made in an uncertain future environment. The competing views on future developments are helpful in reducing the future uncertainties with regard to viability and feasibility of business models for IPTV.Originality/valueThis is one of the first studies that looks into the relationships between business models and scenarios. Also, the application on IPTV is quite novel.

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A business model for IPTV service: a dynamic framework

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Zhengjia

Duin

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“…Some even envision "social networking TV" in IPTV where people use it for a medium of social networking like Facebook and instant messaging (aBI Report 2008;Scherf 2009). and IPTV is more decentralized than ITV in the sense that some functionality is delegated to local caches and processors instituted at the periphery of the network closer to customer premises (Pfeffer 2006;Sullivan and Spring 2007;Vasudevan, Liu, and Kollmansberger 2008). But at the level of overall structural schema, IPTV in its current form is essentially identical to ITV, and as such it still resides within the zone of conventional TV.…”

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Internet Protocol TV in Perspective

Kim

2009

Television & New Media

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The telecommunications firms have continually attempted to introduce a new intelligent television system for the past thirty-plus years by making the best use of ever-developing information and communication technologies, changes in media consumption patterns, collapse of regulatory barriers, and so on. Internet protocol TV (IPTV) is the most recent version of such corporate attempts. This article contextualizes IPTV in terms of its history, identity, and challenges. Despite the rhetoric of newness, IPTV is a replica of the interactive TV of the past, which has a turbulent genealogy of its own. even with the interactive services based upon advanced IP technology, it is not structurally different from conventional television as the medium is organized following the TV model. In addition to competition, a contradiction between the open internet and walled-garden IPTV will pose critical challenges to the medium. However, IPTV is still evolving, and its future is not yet fully determined.Pyungho Kim is an associate professor at the Department of Broadcasting and Multimedia in Dankook University, Seoul, Korea. He is interested in the history of telecommunications media and the relationships between media, technology, and society. He has written a number of articles concerning new media such as interactive TV, the internet, the mobile phone, and media convergence with respect to their social and cultural implications.

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“…maximizing the base customers and profit) and concurrently achieving the customers' goal (i.e. high quality service with cheaper price) [7][8][9]34]. So, distributing these multimedia contents over a set of servers among a wide geographical area to satisfy the needs of customers in these areas is considered the optimal solution to reduce the overload on the backbone network and in the same time satisfy the customers' need efficiently.…”

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Fair and Popularity based Content Allocation Scheme for IPTV Delivery Networks

Fati¹,

Sumari²,

Budiartu³

2015

IJCA

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IPTV gained a significant attention from researchers and Internet service providers due to its ability to benefit from the capabilities of IP based networks to deliver TV related services with high level of QoS. One of the main problems in IPTV Delivery Networks is how to manage the huge amount of multimedia contents efficiently to meet the demands of users especially for Video on Demand (VoD) services. IPTV Delivery Networks is employed to manage the storage of VoD contents in IPTV system but the dynamic changes in both VoD contents and users interests make the need for efficient content management is crucial. Many content allocation schemes are proposed for IPTV Delivery Networks to manage the contents efficiently in hierarchical and distributed architectures. Peer-service architecture of IPTV Delivery Networks is efficient and provides high level of QoS but does not take load balance factor of storage servers into consideration. This paper aims to investigate load imbalance problem in IPTV Delivery Networks, modify peer-service architecture, and propose a novel content allocation method that solves the load imbalance in peer-service content network by replicating the contents based on their popularity and the workload of servers within the service area. Experimental results show that this proposed balanced and popularity based content allocation method can maintains the load balancing among servers and avoid the over/under utilization of servers.

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IPTV: Technology and Development Predictions

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A business model for IPTV service: a dynamic framework

A business model for IPTV service: a dynamic framework

Internet Protocol TV in Perspective

Fair and Popularity based Content Allocation Scheme for IPTV Delivery Networks

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