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November 23, 2005
New Internet Protocol Addressing Standard Supports Internet TV on Small Devices
The new Internet addressing standard, IPV6 will be focusing on handling the rising popularity of video capable portable players. The upcoming US IPv6 Summit Conference in Virginia, US.
TV-over-Internet (also called IPTV or streaming video) has been a major news item lately, with most major broadcasters and film studios announcing initiatives to start delivering content over the Internet. Worldwide TV-over-Internet service revenue is expected to grow to over $44 billion by 2009, with almost 54 million subscribers, according to a new report by Infonetics Research. How the New Internet can facilitate this future growth is a major topic at the Conference. "The New Internet" is the informal name of Internet Protocol version 6, the massive Internet upgrade that is slated to replace today's predominant version 4 (IPv4), in use since 1973. The switch to the new format has been widely supported in Europe and Asia, and was recently mandated for the US military and Federal Government.
This month Apple computer anncounced that it has sold 30 million iPod , its popular portable multimedia player. To feed its huge appetite for chips for such devices Apple has spent $1.2 billion in securing supplies from manufacturers. In the final three months of this Apple is expected to sell over 8 million iPods. Addition of video to iPod is raising speculation that portable devices may cross both PCs and regular TVs for watching television. IPV6 not only provides the expanded addressing to cover such a huge number of devices but also allows efficient streaming of media content based on quality required.
Posted by admin at November 23, 2005 01:28 PM