IPTV

IPTV Quality-of-Experience (QoE) refers to error-free audio/video delivery and to the overall user experience, including channel change times, ease of use, and maximum audio/video quality, without experiencing problems like screen freeze, pixilation and audio/video synchronization mismatches.

Requirements for network-related latency, jitter, and packet loss are much more rigorous for IPTV, which is a real-time service, than for an Internet-TV (iTV) experience, which typically is TCP-based.

Early business models of an IPTV implementation usually require operators to employ an over-subscription model, which drives operators to balance video quality against costly infrastructure equipment. This model interferes with the ability to serve average customer loads, even as it enables the network to handle the statistical peak capacity.

Rivulet can improve the video quality and customer experience by synchronizing your IP traffic to maximize bandwidth utilization, while ensuring the lowest possibly latency and packet loss.

A few of the benefits of a Rivulet solution for IPTV include:

• Improved customer experience due to provision of deterministic IPTV flows with bounded criteria for delay, loss and jitter
• Use your headroom: with Rivulet, you can convert waste to productivity, rescuing bandwidth previously held back for over-provisioning headroom and using that bandwidth to deliver customer content
• Ensure high quality video service delivery by avoiding network congestion and proactively monitoring service flows for maximum user experience.