Scaling IPTV systems to reach 1 million viewers

摘要

Speaking at the IPTV World Forum earlier this year, the president of research firm Multimedia Research Group, or MRG, Gary Schultzrnpredicted that, by 2010, there would be 50.7 million IPTV subscribers, compared with fewer than 10 million now. This is considerable growth considering the nascent industry recently shipped out its first MPEG 4, system-on-chip set top boxes, needed to deliver new services promised by IPTV.