Ensure IPTV Quality of Experience
Communication Service Providers (CSPs) are developing Triple Play services to increase revenue and retain customers. IPTV, as the key component of CSP Triple Play strategy, enables traditional Telco carriers to compete with Cable operators, who are eroding Telco voice service revenue by adding VoIP to complete their own Triple-Play strategy.
IPTV service delivery is triggering the most remarkable evolution of Telco networks in this decade. The pace and extent of this evolution are enormous. Network infrastructures, throughout access, edge and core networks, have to be reshaped. Video Sources are becoming part of Telco equipment. After several years of Capex decline in the early 2000’s, CSPs are beginning to increase their investment, the largest portion of which is represented by IPTV. There are opportunities as well as challenges for Network Equipment Manufactories (NEMs) to provide IPTVenhanced equipment.
The industry is in close agreement about the size of the IPTV opportunity. The above graph, which combines and compares the market forecasts of several analysts, shows an 80% per year expected increase in IPTV subscribers and revenue, continuing until at least until 2008.
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