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IPTV & RFTVThe Most IPTV-Capable Access in the Market Today
ApplicationIPTV services rely heavily on content, ease of use and picture quality as benchmarks for consumer satisfaction – all of which can pose a challenge for service providers. Service providers need an access platform that interoperates with a variety of third party products and applications. IPTV requires multicast forwarding for fast channel change performance in addition to HDTV and VOD services that require high bandwidth. Access design and functionality play a key role in enabling and supporting these IPTV requirements. Many service providers continue to offer traditional non-IPTV RF cable television services that require an integrated access solution for their voice and data services. Solution: MALCMALC is the most IPTV-capable access platform on the market today. MALC has high bandwidth copper and fiber choices for the delivery of IPTV bundled services to subscribers based on service providers needs and their network topology.
Legacy DLC or NGDLC devices can provide voice and broadband data, but they are not suitable for video distribution. In order to offer video services, service providers must either provide multicast IP video over DSL with the existing copper network or deploy PON and then provide multicast IP video and/or RF video over it. MALC caters to these various scenarios by simultaneously supporting RF video over PON along with high-performance multicast IP video over copper or fiber. Features
MALC Value Proposition and BenefitsMALC lowers the overall cost of ownership through a single platform approach to provisioning any mix of FTTx and copper options for IPTV based on location and bandwdith needs. Service providers realize improved CapEx with integrated IPTV functionality such as IGMP Proxy for delivering fast and consistent channel changes. MALC is interoperable and tested with most major IPTV head end, middleware, conditional cccess and IP set top vendors for rapid test and turn up. Support of either IPTV or RF video using FTTx along with HSIA and VoIP/voice services (triple play) enables true service bundling from a single access platform for greater efficiency. The choice of models and sizes of MALC most suitable for location and population assures optimum utilization and less chance of stranded investment. |