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CATV, MATV, IPTV and SMATV Comparison

MATV (Master Antenna TV). Master Antenna Television or MATV, describes an analog cabling network which is used to distribute various television signals throughout a facility. With the installation of multiple satellite dishes, for centrally subscribing and distribution of any channel, from any part of the world (both Pay and Free TV services) can be delivered […]

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Three Main Factors Affecting FTTx Deployment

When operators weigh up their FTTx architecture options, a number of factors will have to be taken into account. These include what assumptions are made about customers’ bandwidth requirements; the topology of the existing legacy network; the level of competition from cable operators; the cost of laying fibre to the node compared with running it […]

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TV and video services in FTTx triple play service

As telcos turn to triple-play services (video, voice and high-speed internet access) to reduce churn and increase revenue, they need to find a way of delivering TV and video to the end-user as cost-effectively as possible. Each of the major point-to multi point PON variants – BPON, GPON and EPON – offers two different methods […]

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IPTV System Overview

Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) is a rapidly maturing technology for the delivery of broadcast TV and other media-rich services over a secure, end-to-end operator managed broadband IP data network. IPTV broadly encompasses a rich functionality that ranges from the acquisition, encoding and decoding, access control and management of video content, to the delivery of digital […]