Getting the TV Experience over IP: Today's Approaches, Issues and Solutions

This session focuses on the approach to providing the TV experience delivered over IP, predominately from those defined by standards. It covers the approaches to achieving the goal of a TV experience, including the architectures and the potential players in such a system. This presentation discusses the issues encountered when delivering content (and related data), such as reliability, scalability and bandwidth. Finally it investigates the techniques currently in use to build a working system, such as delivery protocols, use of multicasting and peer-to-peer technologies.