Research and Markets: How Video Compression, DSL and Fiber Components Illuminate the Growth Path for the IP TV Market.

Research and Markets: How Video Compression, DSL and Fiber Components Illuminate the Growth Path for the IP TV Market.

DUBLIN, Ireland, April 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c16425) has announced the addition of IP TV Components: Quarterly Technology & Content Report - November 2004 to their offering.

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This report discusses the latest developments in components that will strongly affect the IP TV market in 2005 and 2006. This report discusses components used for VDSL, Fiber to the Premise and Video Compression.

Examining three main classes of components that will have a major effect on the deployment of IP TV: VDSL, Fiber to the Premise (FTTP), and Video Compression/Decompression (codec) Components. The VDSL and FTTP components improve the performance of IP TV networks by increasing the bandwidth provided to each subscriber. The Video codec components improve the performance of IP TV networks by lowering the bandwidth required to transmit video streams to subscribers. Specific components covered include VDSL-1, VDSL-2, APON & BPON, EPON, GPON (transmission); and MPEG-2, Windows Media 9/VC-1 and MPEG-4/H.264 (codec) chips. Nine suppliers are profiled, including Aware, Texas Instrument, BroadLight, Equator, LSI Logic, Sigma Designs and others.

The report shows that: VDSL will be important for IP TV because it supports HD (High Definition TV); GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) will not be ready for volume deployment until 2006; set top boxes supporting all three codecs will be available for deployment in 2005; and FTTP (Fiber to the Premise) will also gain importance under certain conditions.

The report compares the three new VDSL and four new FTTP technologies with the current ADSL and the new ADSL-2+ technologies (deployed in 2005). It also compares the bandwidth and distances required by each of the eight transport technologies to support IP TV video streams for both Standard Definition (SD) and High Definition (HD) TV (using all three codecs). Other issues crucial to developing future IP TV infrastructure business cases are also investigated.

Although the report focuses mainly on the downstream speeds, it also explains how ADSL - 2+ (the slowest of the new transport technologies) supports more than 1 Mbps upstream-- fast enough to eliminate upstream latency for channel changing, or any other system performance requirements.

Contents included inside this report:-

1 Executive Summary

2 IP TV Bandwidth Requirements

3 VDSL Technologies and Components

4 Fiber to the Premise Technologies and Components

5 Video Compression Technologies and Components

6 Opportunities, Risks, and Recommendations

7 Appendices

Table of Figures

Table of Tables

The conclusions from this report include:

- VDSL will be an important technology for IP TV because it will provide the bandwidth required to support HD. Conversely, IP TV will be the impetus for many if not most future VDSL deployments.

- FTTP will be of increasing significance as service providers give up on squeezing the last drop of performance out of their copper plant using DSL technology.

- GPON will not be ready for volume deployment until 2006.

- EPON components are ready for deployment today and are likely to be widely deployed in Asia. This will give EPON a significant advantage over GPON.

- Set-top boxes supporting MPEG-2, MPEG-4 with H.264 compression, and Windows Media 9/VC-1 will be available in quantity in 2005.

- Further enhancements in video compression will continue to improve the performance in IP TV systems and will achieve the results outlined in Table 1-5 in time.

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Laura Wood Senior Manager Research and Markets press@researchandmarkets.com Fax: +353 1 4100 980

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