| PROXiTV
is an IST project which built a high quality video content distribution
solution for TV channels and telecom operators on ADSL broadband networks.
The PROXiTV technical solution addresses the need of providing real interactivity
to a large public of home users connected to broadband local loops through
PC or TV. The project has successfully deployed a large
experiment in Austria over the Telekom Austria ADSL loop. This
experiment offers a set of new services using high quality video programs
from WebFreeTV, a national Austrian company aggregating TV channels for
Web accesses, Eurosport TV and many more. The technical solution, based
on multimedia proxy servers and IP transport network, has been deployed
by a system integrator, EADS SYCOMORE, with the help of INRIA's expertise
in data transport optimization onto networks.
PROXiTV aims at establishing a high bandwidth Internet and TV solution,
by taking advantages of the existence of local broadband loops. The basic
idea is to build a global technical solution for providing really interactive
services to a large public of home users connected directly, from their
PC or TV, to a proxy server at the head traffic point of broadband local
loops. Projects issues were:
- to build an efficient distribution infrastructure of multimedia proxies
minimizing video delivery network costs,
- to develop new interactive content-oriented services exploiting true
bandwidth access
- to conduct a large scale experiment on ADSL local loops (initially
planned in 3 cities, now available all over Austria), B-to-C services
with high quality interactive WEB (with TV and VOD), and B to B applications.
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