Management of Digital Video Broadcasting services in open delivery platforms

The future of digital broadcasting is moving towards solutions for the efficient delivery of interactive IP multimedia services over digital broadcasting networks, to handheld terminals. One of the most promising technologies is Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld (DVB-H), at present under standardisation. Services deployed via this type of DVB technology should enjoy reliability comparable to TV services and high quality standards. However, the market does not at present provide effective and economical solutions for the delivery of such services to DVB-H transmitters over multi-domain IP networks due to the high level of unreliability of such networks.

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