![]() | Digital Video Distribution in Broadband, Television, Mobile and Converged Networks - Trends, Challenges and Solutions Fully illustrated throughout to help explain the fundamental concepts of digital media distribution, Digital Video Distribution in Broadband, Television, Mobile and Converged Networks is divided into three major parts starting initially with the basic industry trends that have been driving the adoption of video and making its distribution over the Internet an economically viable solution. This is followed with detail descriptions of challenges and solutions in distributing video in 'open' networks such as the Internet. The final part focuses on the challenges and solutions for distributing video in 'closed' networks such as the managed network of Telcos. Provides an A to Z of digital video distribution featuring technology, business, research, products and case studies. Features research topics exploring P2P Streaming, Digital Video Distribution over Disruption-Tolerant Networks and Scalable Video on Demand. Includes real world product descriptions on Transcoders, such as Rhozet, and IPTV Quality of Service Monitoring product, such as Ineoquest.Dr Sanjoy Paul, Associate Vice President and General Manager, Infosys Technologies Limited, India. Dr Paul is responsible for the research and innovations that lead to the creation of Intellectual Property (IP) in Communications, Media and Entertainment at Infosys Technologies Ltd. He currently manages a highly qualified team of researchers, developers, and product managers distributed worldwide. After working for Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies as their Director of R&D, Networking Software Research for four years, he went on to found the company CreativeSoft Inc before moving to InfoSys Technologies. As well as writing numerous journal articles and conference papers, he has also worked extensively as a consultant. From 2000 to 2005 he was the Editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and was the Guest Editor for IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue on Multicasting . |
![hidden image for function call](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/1x1.png)