IPTV – Television Over the Internet

Abstract

Thanks to new technologies, the traditional transmission paths for television of terrestrial, broadband cable and satellite transmission have been joined by an additional propagation path, the two-wire line, conventionally known as telephone cable. VDSL (Very-high-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line, [ITU-T G.993]) now provides for data rates on these lines which also allow television, IPTV – Internet Protocol Television, i.e. television over the Internet. IPTV is now provided, e.g. by the German T-COM/Deutsche Telekom or the Telekom Austria under the new slogan “Triple Play”. “Triple Play” is telephone, Internet and television out of one socket. The term has also been applied for some time to broadband cable where all 3 media are also available from one socket.