358 JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATIONS, VOL. 5, NO. 5, MAY 2010 IPTV: An End to End Perspective Marie-Jose´ Montpetit MIT Research Lab for Electronics, Cambridge, MA, USA Email:
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[email protected] (Invited Paper) Abstract—IP video has taken two forms: Internet Proto- communication services, the TV experience is being ex- col Television (IPTV), which emulates broadcast Television tended to embrace many of the services provided by web (TV), and Internet video where video selections are accessed applications. At the same time technology advancements across the Internet through Web sites such as YouTube, Hulu, Netflix and others. IPTV and Internet video each and architectures developed for IPTV are now commonly provide capabilities that will drive new TV experience. used for video delivery over the Internet, from protecting As more and more TV content migrates to the Internet, commercial content for Over-The-Top (OTT) providers to “personal” video choices are becoming the norm, not the influencing the “Internet of Information” envisaged as the exception, for IPTV as well as Internet video. Beyond future of the Internet. today’s established IPTV, transformations in how media are managed and delivered promise a world of personalized Some transformations in IPTV are these: content and services delivered to “any device, anytime, First, TV is no longer be targeted at devices with a anywhere.” small number of dedicated functions (“TV” or “music This paper describes the co-evolution of IPTV and In- player”). Instead, media are accessed on multi-purpose ternet video.