Dave Bailey, Computing, Friday 10 September 2010 at 17:00:00
Cisco to provide backbone for IPTV offering
Network giant Cisco's The platform will launch in 2011. ISPs will be able to buy BT Wholesale's content services strategy director Simon Orme said: "Working "It will allow all players, including content service providers, to extract The problem for ISPs currently, said BT, is that in many cases the quality of Content streamed over Cisco's Content Delivery Network will be cached so that This would enable content providers to stream media with an assured level of Cisco CDS would allow BT to provide its BT Wholesale?s Content Connect ISP customers using BT Wholesale?s platform will also be able to monitor Since content delivery takes place on a private network, security concerns
Content
Delivery System (CDS) will form the backbone for BT's wholesale broadband TV
platform, Content Connect, following a deal between the two companies announced
today.
BT
Wholesale Content Connect (WCC) to deliver digital content to computers, TVs
and mobile devices with quality of service (QoS) of viewing experience
guaranteed to customers.
with Cisco enables us to offer an efficient, long-term solution that brings the
power of broadband and content together.
more value from content services in the future,? added Orme.
streamed content is worse the closer you get to the edge of the network.
the QoS can be delivered much closer to the end user ? avoiding congested parts
of the network.
service providing uninterrupted access even at peak times.
service across the UK, with built-in QoS, detailed reporting and analytics.
network status, and detailed broadband statistics about the viewer's experience
through a single portal-based view.
would also be reduced, said BT.
Full story at http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2269594/bt-launch-content-connect
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