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Preserve the IPTV Experience

Introduction

To preserve the video experience across the IP infrastructure, you need a carrier-class IP network to reliably deliver content from the headend to user devices.

The Cisco IP Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) has an open, standards-based architecture combining industry-leading video-to-network linkages, high availability, and video-aware intelligence to offer both entertainment- and business-grade services.

ServiceFlex Architecture for IPTV

The Cisco IP NGN provides an ideal platform for delivery of IPTV services. This true multiservice convergence platform delivers quality of service (QoS), video admission control, and error repair, with faster channel-change time, and enhanced multicast capabilities to enhance customer experience. Features include:

  • ServiceFlex Architecture, which provides "network intelligence" to deliver entertainment-grade services to subscribers with unparallel scalability and reliability. It employs advanced routing intelligence to identify and separate data and video traffic, and employ IP multicast and resiliency techniques to provide more efficient, cost-effective video delivery.
  • Visual Quality of Experience (VQE) technology offers video "application intelligence" to deliver high-quality video services using advances in network congestion avoidance and error recovery.

Cisco Products

This intelligent, network-based platform allows carriers to deliver customized, interactive, and localized content for the full range of next-generation media applications, including VoD, nPVR, TV time-shifting, PEG channels, and targeted ad insertion.

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