A view from the top: The growing availability of technologies to deliver so-called 'over-the-top' services present both challenges and opportunities to service providers

摘要

The delivery of over-the-top content -effectively meaning content providers bypass traditional service providers and aggregators by delivering services over the open Internet - has been a hot topic for broadband and pay-TV providers. Recent initiatives from big industry players - from public and commercial broadcasters to TV manufacturers - that could see live and on-demand content delivered to TVs over unmanaged IP networks has given debate on the subject a new urgency.