May/June 2009 Guest Editors’ Introduction: IPTV: Reinventing Television in the Internet Age Greg Thompson and Yih-Farn Robin Chen Through Web technology, the Internet has grown from its dial-up, command-line childhood into a broadband, visually rich adolescence. Video, the most powerful visual multimedia, requires significantly higher bandwidth, quality of service, reliability, scalability, and security than the Internet’s best-effort legacy might be able to provide.
This has led service providers to embark on major investments in new IP networking technologies to better support video.
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