IPTV & STB Platform
Web & Mobile only broadcast solutions

Internet Protocol television (IPTV) is a system through which television services are delivered using the Internet Protocol Suite over a packet-switched network such as the Internet, instead of being delivered through traditional terrestrial, satellite signal, and cable television formats.

IPTV services may be classified into three main groups:

• live television, with or without interactivity related to the current TV show;
• time-shifted television: catch-up TV (replays a TV show that was broadcast hours or days ago), start-over TV (replays the current TV show from its beginning);
• video on demand (VOD): browse a catalog of videos, not related to TV programming.

IPTV technology is bringing Video-on-demand (VoD) to television which permits a customer to browse an online program or film catalog, to watch trailers and to then select a selected recording. The playout of the selected item starts nearly instantaneously on the customer's TV or PC.

Technically, when the customer selects the movie, a point-to-point unicast connection is set up between the customer's decoder (Set Top Box or PC) and the delivering streaming server. The signalling for the trick play functionality (pause, slow-motion, wind/rewind etc.) is assured by RTSP (Real Time Streaming Protocol).

The most common codecs used for VoD are MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and VC-1.

In an attempt to avoid content piracy, the VoD content is usually encrypted. Whilst encryption of satellite and cable TV broadcasts is an old practice, with IPTV technology it can effectively be thought of as a form of Digital Rights Management. A film that is chosen, for example, may be playable for 24 hours following payment, after which time it becomes unavailable.

How do we bill our clients for IPTV solutions?

The billing cycle for video streaming is billed in a similar format to that of Mobile Phone Contracts, we commit you to an amount of data and then we charge you a cost for the excess data you use on a weekly basis. The more data that you commit to the more cost effective that the excess data fees are with the ability to check this in real time via the portal login. All of this is detailed in the price list which you can apply for by clicking here.

Example of IPTV solutions

We have put together a number of audio streaming examples from MP3 and from WMA files to provide you with a live example on how fast audio streaming can be, this group of examples can be viewed by clicking here or on the demo link below.