METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING THE BANDWIDTH OF SDV PROGRAMMING SUPPLIED TO AN EDGE DEVICE IN A SDV SYSTEM

摘要

service group associated with the subscriber terminal to a request by the SDV sessions to adjust to SDV (Switched Digital Video) manager SDV (Switched Digital Video) system contains are provided. The input for receiving the content to be broadcast during the SDV session is provided. Receiving the transport stream containing the SDV programming provided by the input and the at least one edge device is provided to transmit via the access network, each transport stream to at least one subscriber terminal, on a single channel of the multiple channels SDV . The SDV manager, () providing the SDV programmed to monitor the bandwidth to be used by the edge device to the service group, and, () the monitored at least one SDV program a bit rate provided to the edge device to be adjusted on the basis of the used bandwidth.