by Jacques Gamboni
We all know that there is today in Europe enough available bandwidth, trough modern telecommunication networks. They are presently underemployed. But this will, sooner or later, force the outcome of value added services based on broadband communication.
The deployment of long distance networks and numerical infrastructures is now largely complete. This will encourage, from now on, telecoms operators to offer services where broadband Internet access and IP based TV or entertainment will converge. The TV (or video) on IP is an streaming application which covers several major applications of the economic environment. They can be implemented on IP networks either interurban and/or city such as ADSL, VDSL, fibre, LMDS and wireless LANs. The TV over IP will be used in particular in the following applications:
The deployment of broadband telecoms networks ran up these last times against the lack of applications needing this broadband. This, in its turn, had as consequences a weak return on investment, plunging the majority of the operators into serious economic difficulties. However the viability of the broadband businesses model does find back its attraction with the introduction of TV over IP and all its associated applications.
Television distribution channels imposes a certain size to the producers/broadcasters but, apart from very rare exceptions, none of them has broad and wide diffusion areas. The channels were very expensive to set up and, following the example of traditional telephone network, constitute a dispersed and confined, very specialized network. On the opposite, Internet, by its world wide presence and its very broad connectivity shows the way of convergence. Eventually, the Internet operators will overcome the resistance of the operators of the historical networks.
TV over IP and all its procession of innovating applications will then become
the only mean of distribution.
Presenter:
Jacques GAMBONI
President and founder of Fibre Lac SA, a Swiss telecommunication operator.
He has been active in the fields of telecommunications for more than 28 years. He followed all the evolution of the telecommunication, from the relay switches to TV over IP. Fibre Lac, which provides telecom services trough its own network covering the principal towns of Switzerland, is convinced that TV over IP will revolutionize the communication by the image and wishes to be one of the engines of this progress.