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Re: Tracking Viewers on IP Multicast Video


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  • From: Alan Crosswell <>
  • To: Dov Zimring <>
  • Cc: wg-multicast <>
  • Subject: Re: Tracking Viewers on IP Multicast Video
  • Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 11:51:38 -0500

Dov,

Thanks for the pointers. What are folks using for encoders? I assume they are mostly taking a DVB feed. I recall Minerva having a box that does this a while ago. This sounds a lot more attractive to me than what I've seen of a few deployments in .edu where individual analog channels (frequently having been decoded from MPEG) are re-encoded with one box per channel. That doesn't scale well if one is truly trying to deliver 100's of channels like "real" cable/satellite TV.
/a


Dov Zimring wrote:
These are Ethernet/IP Set Top Boxes and I see no reason these couldn't be used in the enterprise. Most of the commercial deployments I've been involved with are telephone companies that own or share a Cable MSO and are looking to extend their footprint to provide video service via Fiber or DSL. Encoding, transcoding, Video on Demand, integrated on screen caller-id, all that fun stuff

A few of the players in this space:
http://www.aminocom.com
http://www.i3micro.com/i3web
http://www.2wire.com
http://www.bastinc.com

For commercial deployments these vendors integrate with various middleware vendors to handle user accounts, retrieve corresponding program guides and take care of all the back office accounting and billing. There are a number of middleware vendors out there, to name a few:
http://www.myrio.com
http://www.minervanetworks.com
http://www.infogateonline.com/content.asp?id=15

There's a laundry list of other vendors for encoding/transcoding, VoD, encryption, etc. I've spent lots of time in the trenches deploying IPTV over DSL with video headends that were built for CATV and then retrofitted for IPTV. Happy to share what I know.

Regards,




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