INTERNET PROTOCOL TV

A.GANESAN
DGM, BSNL(Retd) And Chairman IETE Chennai

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK

Switching Network Transmission Network Access Network

Broadband concepts

What is BROADBAND?

An always-on data connection Able to support interactive services including Internet access Simultaneous availability of Phone and Internet on the existing Telephone line Has the capability of the minimum download speed of 256 kilo bits per second (kbps)

What is broadband?

Bandwidth equal to and above 256 Kbps has been defined as broadband by TRAI

Salient Features of Broadband

Easy registration on phone and web. Telephone will continue to work even in case of power failure at subscribers end. Use now and pay later in telephone bill. It provides a means to bill based on Volume of data downloaded. It will provide Multicast Video Services, Videoon-demand such as IPTV in future Can share Broadband connection to create own LAN network i.e. more than one PC can be connected.

Services Offered by broadband always-on broadband access to the Internet content based services video multicasting video-on-demand interactive gaming audio and video conferencing ip telephony distance learning

Services offered

Messaging: plain and feature rich

Multi-site MPLS VPNs with Quality of service (QoS) guarantee.

The subscribe will be able to access the above services through Subscriber Service Selection System (SSSS) portal

Modulation Techniques Used in Broadband

CAP -Carrier

less Amplitude Phase Modulation

DMT -Discrete

multitone modulation (DMT)

Broadband Penetration
There are about 150 million Broadband subscriber worldwide and are increasing by about 5,00,000 every month

Asia Pacific 45% USA 30% Europe, Middle East & Africa 25%

Indian scenario: Broadband customers3 million Targeted growth for 2010---20 million

TV Penetration

112 Househods have TV CABLE TV Channels 68 millions cable TV 2 millions DTH

Broadband Wireless Technologies

3G Mobile

Based on WCDMA & CDMA Supports data rates

144 kbps for outdoor mobile environment 384 kbps in low mobility environment 2 mbps in indoor environment

Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity)

Wireless LAN with Broadband option Most widely used LAN standard (IEEE 802.11b) Uses 2.4 Ghz band & delivers 11 mbps of data over distances of 100 meters

Broadband Wireline Technologies

DSL-Digital Subscriber line

Technology for high bandwidth to home and small businesses over ordinary copper telephone lines Achievable data rate depends on the distance and cable impairments

DSL Technologies
Technology
ADSL Splitterless ADSL ADSLExtended Bandwidth 2 Wire High-Speed DSL 4 Wire High-Speed DSL Very High-speed DSL Very High-speed DSL

ITU-T Standard
G-992.1 G-992.2 G-992.5 G-991.2 G-991.2 G-993.1 G-993.1

Distance
3.5 Kms 4.0 Kms 1.5 Kms 3.0 Kms 3.0 Kms 300 Mts 700 Mts

Downstream Data Rate

8 Mbps 1.5 Mbps 16 Mbps 2312 Kbps 4624 Kbps 52 Mbps 26 Mbps

Upstream Data Rate

640 Kbps 512 Kbps 100 Kbps 2312 Kbps 4624 Kbps 6-26 Mbps 26 Mbps

Broadband Wireline Technologies

Optical Fibre Technologies

PON (Passive Optical Network) FTTH (Fibre-To-The-Home) FTTC (Fibre-To-The-Curb) HFC (Hybrid Fibre Co-axial)

Internet Protocol Television

IPTV
What is IPTV Services offered in IPTV

Functional Components in IPTV

IPTV Operation Implementation issues of IPTV

Market issues of IPTV

What is IPTV

IPTV
IPTV is basically a fusion of voice, video, and data service bundled in a single format for delivery

result of high bandwidth and high speed Internet infrastructure built recently

IPTV
History In 1994, ABC's World News Now was the first television show to be broadcast over the Internet, using the CU-SeeMe Videoconferencing software

IPTV
IPTV

is not PCTV

Video A

on Demand (VOD) - IPTV's unique appln.,

combination of multicasting and unicasting

Increasing
Advanced

demand for new value added service.

compression techniques provides improved performance. costs are still high, but fast falling

Deployment

IPTV vs Internet Television

IPTV Similar to cable TV service with lot of value added elements and improved performance

Internet Television
It is an open evolving framework where a stored contents from small and mediumsized video producers are accessed through web

IPTV Triple Play

IPTV is bundled with - Video on Demand (VOD)

Voice over IP (VOIP) over phone

- Standard TV channel
- High Definition TV channel

- Web access or browsing

Services offered in IPTV

Services Offered By IPTV

Two Types are available

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Broadcast type On Demand type

Broadcast type Services

- IPTV through Electronic Program Guide (EPG) - Pay Per View - Hi-fi radio broadcast through EPG - Distance Learning - On line Shopping

Services Offered by IPTV

On Demand Type Services

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Interactive Video On Demand (VoD) Time Shifted TV (TSTV)

Music Downloads Pay Per View (PPV)

Music on demand Games on demand Interactive Gaming

IPTV features

The real-time participation in games by customers watching Television programs at home.

The ability to turn on multiple angles of an event and watch it from dual angles simultaneously using picturein-picture viewing.

IPTV features
Provide two-way communication for interactive television To record multiple broadcasts at any instant Allows for P-I-P viewing without the need for multiple tuners

Receive caller ID information on incoming call on TV screen while watching TV

Play video games using TV

Functional Components of IPTV

Functional components
Content Sources-VOD Source -Broadcast Source -Encoder Service Nodes-

-VOD Server -Broadcast Server Wide Area Distribution Networks -Backbone network -Access network Customer Access Links. Customer Premises Equipment (CPE).

IPTV Architecture

IPTV Basic Services

ARCHITECTURE
Middleware (MW) Content Protection System (CPS) Central Media Li bray, Content (VoD )Server Element Management System (EMS) Video Head end system Advertisement Insertion Server Directory server Billing System Access network Customer Premises Equipment Network Management System (NMS)

Architecture Basic Blocks

Broadcast Head End Core IP Network (Broadband)

ADSL Modem

VOD Server

Middle ware

Directory Server Element Management System(EMS) Billing Server

Network Management System

IPTV Distribution
Core router

Broadband RAS

BB Tier1 GigE Aggregation SW GigE

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..DSLAM.. X-ge A ADSL terminals

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X-ge C X-ge B ..DSLAM.. X-ge D

X-ge E ..DSLAM..

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X-ge F

ADSL terminals

ADSL terminals

ADSL ADSL terminals terminals

ADSL terminals

Network components

Access network

Broadband network capable of providing desired bandwidth to end user as required by the content application.

Network Components
Middleware Helps in:
-

The Authentication of The users. Keeping the profile of all services.

Users to modify account by communicating with the directory server.

for displaying the balance of user account.

- Generates CDR and sent to the billing server .

Network Components
Content Protection System (CPS)
-secure delivery of the content using description keys.

Element Management System (EMS)

controls content delivery to the user upon getting authorization from the MW. keep a record of services delivered for billing purpose. provide on demand type of service

Network Components

Video Head end system

reception and storage of contents from broadcast source and video source in high end servers

Network Components
Advertisement Insertion Server Inserting the advertisement into the content streams.

Directory server Storing the user profile along with the settings and password. Billing System Billing of content services shall be on either pre-paid or post paid.

Network Components
Aggregator
The output stream is connected to a core IP switch called Aggregation switch. This is used to connect a gateway server at one end and to BRAS at the other end.

Broadband remote access server(BRAS)

This is the place where the multicasting is done
DHCP server - Allocates IP address to an host STB as and when a user wants to use a program on TV. The program is selected at the STB by the Electronic program guide EPG.

Uses IGMP to control the membership of an host on confirmation host.

Network Components
The Switch
Forwarding the multicast packet received from the Encoder to the Broadband Aggregation Switch.

The switch does not allow all outputs to be connected to all inputs. The switch can act as a testing point for the multicast packets.

Network Components
Encoder
Input to the Encoder for each chl is in MPEG-2 format

Encoder uses advanced compression techniques for converting High bandwidths to deliverable size

RTP and IP address to each Encoder or channel is also added

The output Packet of the Encoder will be a multicast packet consisting of : MPEG4 ( bit stream) Source IP Address Destination IP Add and RTP

Network Components
Customer Premise Equipment (CPE)
ADSL MODEM Set Top Box TV set

Remote Control

Set Top Box is required for providing Content Based Services to the users of any IP based network.

IPTV Backbone Network

One SDTV requires 4 Mb One HDTV channel requires 20 Mb Backbone Network of any Service Provider requires a capacity of around 800 Mb for delivering 100 SDTV and 20 HDTV channels This also provides 2 Mb for browsing

IPTV Operation

IPTV OPERATIONS
Set Top Box

STB is an Intelligent device

STB delivers IP based contents to an end user Interface to IP based access network by Access modem provide content presentation in suitable form. used for Streaming based content service or/and Web based browsing. STB is programmable and support I. Video codec MPEG-2 MPEG-4 2. Audio Codec

IPTV OPERATIONS
Set Top Box (STB)

To Decode the cencoded content STB supports two video streams simultaneously (P-in-P). It also Supports:

Unicast and Multicast. 10 bit A/D converter. CIF (352X288, Common Intermediate Format in PAL) for video SIP ( Session Initiation Protocol) forVoIP Client Software for playing the Content on the TV

SET-TOP BOX
Aminet 130H Ethernet STB with AVC and HD support By Visionary Solotions Inc.

DECODER
AmiNET 110H Decoder for MPEG-2 AVN Encoded Streams

IP Encoder
AVN 200 MPEG-2 IP Audio-Video Node By Visionary Solutions Inc USA

IPTV OPERATIONS

The TV signals received by dish antenna are fed to Integrated Receiver Decoder (IRD), which converts the RF signals in to digital form. Its output in MPEG-2 format is sent to a splitter which distributes the digital stream which sends it to an ENCODER.

Protocols used in IPTV operations

Transmission Control Protocol TCP Internet Control Message Protocol ICMP Internet Protocol Control Protocol IPCP Address Resolution Protocol- ARP Real Time Streaming Protocol RTSP Real Time Control (RTCP) Dynamic Host Control Protocol Protocol - DHCP Internet Group Management Protocol IGMP Password Authentication Protocol PAP Challenge Handshake Authentication protocol CHAP

IPTV OPERATIONS

The Encoder Output using MPEG-4 format

is a compressed video

The RTP information and Multicast IP address are added here The output is then fed to DSLAM equipment in the Telephone Exchanges The STB at subscribers home converts the received signal to the form acceptable by TV .

IPTV Working

The MPEG-4 Stream in the form of multicast group is continuously flowing into the BRAS. BRAS is continuously generating General membership query to all hosts.

As soon as a viewer start STB and select a particular channel, STB will generate a Request for a particular channel to BRAS and place a Membership Report to BRAS.
BRAS will place that specific host in a multicast group, and start forwarding the replicated copies of the stream to that specific host.

Channel_MulticastIP Address_RTP Port List

Chan nel 1 2 3 4

Multicast IP Address 225.1.1.1 225.1.1.2 225.1.2.1 225.1.2.2

RTP port 30120 30120 30120 30120

Name Aaj -tak Head-line today BBC-world Zee- music

5
6 7 8

225.1.3.1
225.1.3.2 225.1.4.1 225.1.4.2

30120
30120 30120 30120

Star-utsav
Sun-TV Eetv-marati ETC-punjabi

9
10

225.1.5.1
225.1.5.2

30120
30120

Jain-TV
DDRajyasabha

Channel_MulticastIP Address_RTP Port List

Chan nel 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22

Multicast IP Address 225.1.6.1 225.1.6.2 225.1.11.1 225.1.11.2 225.1.12.1 225.1.12.2 225.1.13.1 225.1.13.2 225.1.14.1 225.1.14.2 225.1.15.1 225.1.15.2

RTP port 30120 30120 30120 30120 30120 30120 30120 30120 30120 30120 30120 30120

Name Akaash-Bangla DD-Saptagiri DD-national DD-Gujarathi DD-Nes DD-Kashir DD-Ne MH-1 DD-punjabhi GyanDarshan DD-Malayalam DD-India

Implementation Issues

Better QOS by using IP/MPLS Network Quality Audio & Video Quality Network capacity Channel changing time Operation Support System Security and Reliability issues Rights and regulations for content and data distribution.

IPTV Market
Forecast is that IPTV market will grow to over 27 million household by end of the decade

-Reliance tied up with Motorola -Sunmicro systems and Tech mahendra plans roll-out in2007 -Bharti ready with IPTV plan -MTNL started IPTV @Rs99 subscription -BSNL is testing Triple Play