Abstract
As per-user revenues from voice and data services continue to shrink, service providers are seeking new revenue-generating services. At the same time, traditional service providers are facing increasing competition from both cable providers and non-telco applications, such as Skype or YouTube.

To successfully compete in this changed telecom environment, carriers around the world are turning toward advanced video services, such as video-on-demand, network-based personal digital video recorders, time-shifting and place-shifting capabilities, and many more. The ability to deliver these advanced TV services using IP protocol (IPTV) is becoming a cornerstone requirement for next generation access networks.

This presentation will describe characteristics of IP video traffic and discuss the access network's mechanisms and features required to deploy carrier-grade IPTV / Triple-play services. We also will provide a detailed review of how EPON meets these requirements. The presentation will conclude with the roadmap for EPON to meet future advanced video services.

Speaker Biography
Glen Kramer is chief scientist at Teknovus, Inc. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Davis. Glen chairs the IEEE P802.3av “10 Gb/s EPON” task force. The author of Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (McGraw-Hill, 2005), he has done extensive research in areas of traffic management, QoS, and fairness in access networks.<Back>