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The magazine for global video www.csimagazine.com TV Broadcast • Streaming • Satellite • Cable • Hybrid The leading media for video delivery technology June 2019 Buyers Guide Buyers ATSC 3.0 vs DVB-T2 3.0 vs ATSC Multicast-ABR Asian TV landscape Defi ning cable’s role in a 5G world June 2016 • OTT, VoD, Cloud TV, Cable, Satellite, IPTV, DTT, IoT • The latest news, views and features 1_Cover.indd 1 15/05/2019 15:07:25 Embrace the age of Infinite Entertainment. We’re Synamedia. We’re helping operators, service providers and media companies around the globe to deliver, protect, and monetize compelling video content. We do that by delivering the world’s most complete, secure and advanced end-to-end open video delivery solution. We’ll be at ANGA COM 2019, stand E11, hall 7 and we’re looking forward to discussing how to embrace this exciting age of Infinite Entertainment. www.synamedia.com © 2019 Synamedia and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Contents TV Broadcast • Streaming • Satellite • Cable • Hybrid The leading media for video delivery technology The magazine for global video www.csimagazine.com 19 Edge networking: a Netflix TV Broadcast • Streaming • Satellite • Cable • Hybrid The leading media for video delivery technology June 2019 story Buyers Guide Buyers How Netflix localised content delivery ATSC 3.0 vs DVB-T2 3.0 vs ATSC Editor with CDNs at the edge Multicast-ABR Goran Nastic Asian TV landscape 20 TV in Asia Commercial Defi ning cable’s role in a 5G world This article examines Asian market Camilla Capece June 2016 • OTT, VoD, Cloud TV, Cable, Satellite, IPTV, DTT, IoT • The latest news, views and features 1_Cover.indd 1 15/05/2019 15:07:25 dynamics with a focus on streaming, Daniel Torelli Android TV and piracy 05 News & analysis Design and production Matt Mills (Manager) 06 Data corner: OTT in Asia 24 Opinion Jessica Harrington There is a thriving market for local DVB’s Peter Siebert identifies a key streaming players. India and China in difference between ATSC 3.0 and DVB-T2 Regular contributors particular are becoming hotbeds of new Adrian Pennington, Philip Hunter, David Adams, Stephen Cousins, content development 26 Synamedia Q&A Anna Tobin Rinat Burdo of Synamedia talks about 08 COVER STORY: From 5G... online video credentials sharing and using Circulation The advent of 5G stands to transform the behavioural analytics to combat piracy Joel Whitefoot mobile and wider telecoms and IoT landscape - cable wants a piece of the action 28 Industry trends Accounts Identifying the main trends to come Marilou Tait, Mohamad Saidani 11 ...to 10G out of NAB 2019 and beyond Editorial At the same time, the cable industry is tel +44(0)20 7562 2401 emphasising its ability to push to 10 Gigabit 30 Live sports streaming [email protected] and beyond through its ‘10G’ programme How to reach its full potential Advertising tel +44(0)20 7562 4382 13 M-ABR with Broadpeak 33 Buyers Guide 2019 [email protected] Together with Broadpeak, CSI looks at Our inaugural listing of key suppliers in tel +44(0)20 7562 2438 the state of the Multicast-ABR market the cable, broadband and satellite sectors [email protected] Subscriptions tel +44 (0) 20 1635 588 861 Editor’s report: [email protected] Circulation manager: joel.whitefoot@ While even the most luddite tech consumers have likely heard of 5G, you’d be perspectivepublishing.com forgiven for not being quite as familiar with ‘10G’, a cable-led initiative, including logo and (possibly) pending patent, to reflect its push towards multi-gigabyte, low- Subscription rates latency next-gen networks. Starting on page 11, cable industry expert Daniel Per year: Europe £88; UK £68; Rest of World £98. Cheques payable to Etman outlines the tools available in cable’s technology boxset to get to at least Perspective Publishing the 10G promise. Indeed, as Etman notes, already there are deployments in Europe using the Limited and addressed to the coaxial cable for 10 Gbps, full duplex, up to 3.5 Ghz. The drive to 10 Gigabit and beyond Circulation Department forms a large part of ANGA COM’s conference agenda this year, and we will be reporting back from the show on this and other key issues. Back with 5G, it will be all-encompassing for Printed by Buxton Press the next few years, affecting also satellite, DTT and other networks. Goran Nastic Managing Director John Woods Perspective Publishing Publishing Director 3 London Wall Buildings London Mark Evans 2019 EC2M 5PD www.perspectivepublishing.com ISSN 1467-5935 www.csimagazine.com June 2019 03 03_Contents.indd 1 16/05/2019 10:27:43 News news in brief First demo of 5G backhaul via LEO as Joyn launching in June satellite looks to 5G for growth ProSieben’s new streaming service Joyn, a joint Can satellites participate in The world’s first live test of John Miller, senior venture with Discovery, the 5G ecosystem? As 5G 5G services using a LEO manager, satellite demand will launch in June. aims to embrace other access satellite was conducted in and customer design for ProSiebenSat.1 said its networks including fibre and April with Telesat’s Phase 1 Vodafone Group, said: new streaming platform microwave, so the satellite LEO satellite connected to “The use of LEO satellites will provide over 50 TV sector is eager to play a role the University of Surrey’s 5G provides an additional mobile channels in live streams. that will drive new growth, test bed network. Specialist backhaul option and can be In addition, it will offer with backhaul seen as a key Vodafone engineers an important part of the on-demand self-produced use case. supported the trial and the delivery system particularly series, shows, previews and 5G can become the next company arranged licensing. to customers in our markets local content. Netflix was driver of growth for satcom Test results confirmed a who live in rural areas.” estimated to have just over and, according to NSR, with network reaction time (round Gilat and Newtec supplied 5 million customers in 1 out of every 3 new $ in trip latency) of 18-40 the high throughput modems Germany as of last capacity revenues for milliseconds, among the used for the test network. October. backhaul in the next 10 years lowest ever for a satellite Overall, a number of use- directly attributed to 5G. connection, according to cases for 5G require close Mediaset shifting payTV Now, a group led by the companies. The demo interworking between mobile, channels online Telesat and including supported video chatting, web terrestrial, fibre, microwave, Mediaset has closed its Vodafone and the University browsing and simultaneous satellite networks. In Europe, terrestrial operations on of Surrey have demonstrated streaming of up to 8K video. broadcasters are ramping up Italy’s DTT network that Low Earth Orbit The team also transferred 4K 5G trials to determine how effective June 1 and satellites can provide low- video to the edge of the 5G the technology can decided to go OTT-only. latency backhaul transport network, demonstrating a key complement (or substitute) As part of the move, for MNOs. 5G future use case. production and delivery. Mediaset Premium channels will migrate to the Infinity streaming Average broadband pricing falls in Q1 service. The move is part of a downsizing of the globally while bandwidth rises Mediaset Premium pay-TV In Q1 2019, the average last quarter, according unit following the failed monthly charge for fibre to the latest data from sale to Vivendi. Customers connections decreased by Point Topic. fell 80% to 300,000 at the 4.8% while the average price Asia-Pacific retained its start of 2019. of copper accesses dropped dominant position in terms by 1.5% and the charge for of bandwidth. In Q1 2019, Record losses for US TV cable accesses went up by the average bandwidth in Traditional video providers 1.3% compared to the this region was 472Mbps. in the US lost a record 1.4 previous quarter. Western Europe and North million subscribers in the The average bandwidth America followed with last quarter, compared to provided to residential 265Mbps and 253Mbps a loss of 808,000 in Q1 subscribers increased by respectively. 2018, according to nearly 7% compared to The lowest priced business MoffettNathanson. Q4 2018. The boost was tariffs were offered in Europe broadband download speed Satellite (Dish and impacted by the continued and North America while at 68Mbps. DirecTV) was worst hit. increase in bandwidth Asia-Pacific offered the In Q1 2019, the combined Craig Moffett noted that provided over fibre and highest average download average cost per Mbps on 40% of the subs lost in Q1 cable networks. The average speeds. broadband packages provided were converted to OTT-TV download speeds over fibre Middle East and Africa, over the three technologies providers, down from and cable increased by 6% which are focusing on mobile, dropped from $0.47 in Q4 89.4% in the year-ago. and 5% respectively in the had the lowest average fixed 2018 to $0.43 in Q1 2019. 04 June 2019 www.csimagazine.com 4-5_News.indd 2 16/05/2019 15:32:49 News Experimentation “critically important”, news in brief says NBA, as streaming giants circle live DT tops 100Gbps over microwave link OTT sports arena Advanced backhaul solutions will be needed to A panel at SportsPro Live in but let’s see what happens… support high data London debated the future There are going to be throughput and enhanced direction of sports streaming. different players in the mix.
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