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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2007
Werner Van Leekwijck, Antwerp, BE;
Toon Coppens, Lier, BE;
Ing-jyh Tsang, Waasmunster, BE;
Tim Gyselings, Deurne, BE;
Werner Van Leekwijck, Antwerp, BE;
Toon Coppens, Lier, BE;
Ing-Jyh Tsang, Waasmunster, BE;
Tim Gyselings, Deurne, BE;
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Abstract
A method of providing an Internet protocol television service to a subscriber, and a network element to execute this method. At an acquisition tier, IPTV packets are generated from video stream data of one or more video channels and transmitted to a FCC server cluster at a client-facing tier. IPTV packets associated with one of the one or more video channels selected by the subscriber are delivered from the deliver server cluster to a receiver of the subscriber at a client tier wherein the IPTV packets associated with the one of the one or more video channels are reassembled at said receiver into a coherent video stream. Said generated IPTV packets are routed from a network () of a TV broadcaster to networks of one or more TV operators or from a network of a TV operator to networks of one or more TV operators by means of IPTV service routers installed at an intertwine tier arranged between the acquisition tier and the client-facing tier.