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After IT, Telecom is now converging
with Television
What's the Hype
about IPTV?
Muhammad
Farooq answers the What, Why, Who &
When of IPTV
(Cover
Story)
IPTV
is a piece of the 'triple play' puzzle;
voice, video and data by one provider
over one infrastructure. The Internet
Protocol Television (IPTV) has become
a common denominator for systems where
television and/or video signals are
distributed to subscribers or viewers
using a broadband connection over
Internet Protocol. IPTV is not a protocol
itself. It is a collection of hardware
(head-end systems, video servers,
IP set-top boxes), software (middleware
software, and security software for
digital-rights management and conditional
access), protocol (IP) and infrastructure
(broadband). IPTV is a crucial piece
of the regional telecom multi-billion-dollar
plan to use fiber-optic cable in order
to deliver a "triple- play"
bundle of television, phone and high-speed
Internet services to consumers....
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Zeros and ones are everywhere.
Sometimes we see them, sometimes
we don't. They are in the air as
signals, under the water on those
fiber optic cables, on the ground
running through phone lines. They
surround you like anything.
Information Technology is changing
the way we live our lives. Remote
controllers in our hands,
earphones on our ears, the monitor
infront of you and the email you
check daily are all examples of
how we are different from our
previous generations. Telecom
industry is flourishing day by
day. A cellphone in every pocket
and a phone line at every home is
what we'll see in coming months.
New telecom carriers are coming up
& tele-density is on the rise.
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more about all this?
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