METHOD FOR OPERATING A NETWORK EQUIPMENT ARRANGED ALONG A TRANSMISSION PATH BETWEEN A CLIENT TERMINAL AND AT LEAST ONE SERVER AND CORRESPONDING NETWORK EQUIPMENT

摘要

A network equipment (GW) configured to be arranged along a transmission path between a client terminal and at least one server, the network equipment configured to receive from the client terminal a request for a first representation of a segment of multimedia content available in various representations , the request also specifies one or several alternative representations of the segment, and the network equipment: - a filtering module 16, configured to modify the request by removing respective alternative representations of the request, the associated bitrate being higher than the at least one obtained downstream bandwidth along the transmission path between the server and the client terminal; - a communication module 11, configured to forward the modified request to an upstream network element arranged between the network equipment GW and the server includes