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ZTE IPTV Structure and Solution

Contents

ZTE IPTV Solution S Successful Application C f l A li ti Case ZTE IPTV Solution Highlight

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ZTE IPTV Overview

ZTE promotes OPEN, Convergent, Scalable, and Cost-effective IPTV platform and Rich Cost effective platform, Innovative Services.

In China IPTV market, ZTE is the leading IPTV solution provider. IDC, UBS

ZTE IPTV

ZTE is the clear market leader in China, as rated by IDC, UBS & Ovum

ZTE has a relative advantage in terms of its larger share of the domestic market (more than 50% of share in China Telecom deployments for example) Ovum

ZTE IPTV Overview

ZTE IPTV Position No.1 in the Asia, No.4 in the world. ----MRG Q2 2008

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ZTE IPTV Architecture

CDN Network Architecture

CDN Manager Agent
VOD Server VOD Server VOD Server

ZTE CDN could be Two-level Structure or Multi-Level Structure. ZTE CDN consists of CDN Manager, Agent, g g VoD server etc.

Storage

Central Node
Agent
VOD Server VOD Server VOD Server
VOD Server

VoD Server CDN Manager

VOD servers in each node can The CDN Manager located Agent be added dynamically isto meet in the CDN central node or the gradually increasing parallel alone, which is responsible The CDN Agent is located in VOD requirements. VOD server for the CDNmanagement, network node, which is stores andcontent control, global reads contents, sends responsible for node video streamsservice node content and management, control. to global and responds the VCR requests inservice control, control, node the VOD process, and at the same time is and streaming interface adaptation. di d f responsible t ti media services ibl for i such as time-shifted TV, TVoD and NPVR. VOD server for Living Agent broadcast service such as live TV, VOD VOD live relay, NVOD. Server Server VOD servers in the same VOD Storage cluster can share the storage.

Agent
VOD Server VOD Server

Storage

Storage

Subsidiary Central Node

Agent
VOD Server VOD Server VOD Server

Agent
VOD Server VOD Server VOD Server VOD Server

Storage

Storage

Edge Node

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CDN Software Architecture

ZTE CDN Subsystem
CMS
Network management

CDN Manager g
Content control Service control

SMS

VoD server MSTU

Read/write/record /distribute media services Like TSTV and NPVR

CDN Agent
Node management

SOMP
System management Version management

EMS

Content control Service control Operation maintenance

MDU
Living broadcast service such as live TV, live relay, NVOD

Router process

Streaming Server Interface adapter

STB

STB

CDN Software Architecture----CDN Manager CDN Manager

Network management Equipment Service managementmanagement Node Performance WEB service management statistics Log Network managementmanagement VCDN management Content control Content instruction analysis Task management Service control Global load balance

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CDN Software Architecture----Agent

CDN Agent
Node management

Content control Storage quota control

Service control

Streaming Server Interface adapter p

Equipmen Service t management managem ent Node Performance management statistics

Task creation

Local load balance

NVOD plan

Task management

Service trigger control

VCDN Log management management

Task execution

Service quota control NVOD,NPVR, live relay control

Transmission quota control

CDN Hardware Architecture

Central Node BOSS

Basic Middleware Platform

EPG server Interface server Statistic Web &CDR server server

Service processing server (CDN Manager)

VS8000C

Edge N d Ed Node VS8000C

MSCU=Agent VoD (MSTU/MDU) SOMP

MSCU=Agent VoD (MSTU/MDU) SOMP

Disk Array

Disk Array

Firewall

IP network

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CDN Mechanism

Content Distribution Content Schedule

Content Scheduling Mechanism Facing Operators Dual-directional Symmetrical y Scheduling Mechanism between CDN Nodes

ZTE CDN Subsystem

VCDN

CDN Redundancy
Redundancy among nodes Redundancy in one node Redundancy in storage

Load Balancing
Global Load Balancing Local Load Balancing

Live relay

CDN Mechanism---- Content Distribution

Content distribution mode
Push
FTP PUSH distribution means that the system can push the program from the upper layer node to the lower layer node according to preset distribution rules. This process can also be completed manually.
CDN Manager Agent VOD Server VOD Server Storage VOD Server

Content Library

Central Node

Note: The blue arrows in this map is signaling flow. The red arrows in this map is media flow.
Agent VOD Server VOD Server Storage

Push

Push

Backbone

Agent VOD Server VOD Server VOD Server Storage VOD Server

Regional Node

Regional Node

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CDN Mechanism---- Content Schedule

Distribution on demand policy
CDN Manager Agent g VOD Server VOD Server VOD Server

Timed distribution policy Preset plans to conduct timed distribution. Automatic distribution policy Automatically gather statistics of the content and distribute according to the popularity of the content. content

Storage

Central Node

Classification distribution policy According to different contents, set different distribution intervals and destination. Hierarchical distribution policy Set different distribution intervals and destination according to different hierarchies of contents.

Agent VOD Server VOD Server VOD Server

Agent VOD Server VOD Server VOD Server

Program purchasing and distribution policy

Storage

Regional Node
V O D Se rv er Agent V O D Se rv er Storage V O D Se rv er V O D Se rv er Agent V O D Se rv er Storage V O D Se rv er V O D Se rv er Agent V O D Se rv er Storage V O D Se rv er V O D Se rv er

Storage

Priority policy of content distribution

Agent V O D Se rv er Storage

V O D Se rv er

V O D Se rv er

Agent V O D Se rv er Storage

V O D Se rv er

Note: Edge Node The red arrows in this map is media flow.

CDN Load Balancing Mechanism ---- Redirection

Global Load Balancing Mechanism
CDN Manager Agent VOD Server VOD Server VOD Server

Adjacent rules S b ib l Subscribers group rules Sequential service priority Local service priority Local Load Balancing Mechanism Content storage location Concurrent stream traffic G Concurrent connection Server processing capacity
Note1: Breaking point memory in VoD service
V O D S e rv e r V O D S e rv e r V Age O nt D S e rv e Storage r V O D S e rv e r

Storage

Central Node

Agent VOD Server VOD Server VOD Server VOD Server

Agent VOD Server VOD Server

Storage

V O D S e rv e r

Storage

Regional Node
V O D S e rv e r V Age O nt D S e rv e Storage r V O D S e rv e r V O D S e rv e r V Age O nt D S e rv e Storage r

V O D S er v er

Age V nt O D S er v Storage er

V O D S er v er

V O D S e rv e r

V Age O nt D S e rv e Storage r

STB

Edge Node

Note 2: The blue arrows in this map is signaling flow. The red arrows in this map Is media flow.

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CDN Load Balancing Mechanism ---- Convergence

CDN Manager Agent VOD Server VOD Server VOD Server

Storage

Central Node

Agent VOD Server VOD Server VOD Server VOD Server

Agent VOD Server VOD Server

Storage

Storage

Regional Node

Note 1: The blue arrows in this map flow. is signaling flow The red arrows in this map Is media flow.

V O D S er v er Age V nt O D S er v Storage er V O D S er v er

STB

V O D S e rv e r

V Age O nt D S e rv e Storage r

V O D S e rv e r

V O D S e rv e r

V Age O nt D S e rv e Storage r

V O D S e rv e r

V O D S e rv e r

V Age O nt D S e rv e Storage r

V O D S e rv e r

V O D S e rv e r

V Age O nt D S e rv e Storage r

V O D S e rv e r

Edge Node

CDN Mechanism---- Live Relay

Live relay and forwarding function
Support live relay and forwarding mode such as multicast, unicast, multicast and unicast combined.
TCP Unicast Central server Content making work station Unicast

Unicast

Unicast Edge servers

Unicast

Edge servers

Advantages
Helping the carriers without multicast on network transmit Live TV to end subscribers. Saving the bandwidth.

Multicast

Multicast

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CDN Mechanism---- CDN Redundancy

ZTE layered CDN architecture Serving location subscribers in each edge nodes A relaying node for one node built by system, such as that system node2 is the relaying node for node 1 Redundancy
CDN Manager Agent VOD Server VOD Server VOD Server

among Nodes

Central Node

Storage

Agent VOD Server S VOD Server S VOD Server S

If the relaying node could not provide services, users are redirected to the central node which provides the services.

Agent VOD Server S VOD Server S VOD Server S

Storage

x
Edge Node 1 for users belonging to STB

Storage

When the belonging node has fault or no required programs, users are redirected to the relaying node which provides the services for users.

Edge Node 2 for users relaying on

CDN Mechanism---- CDN Redundancy

Redundancy

in One Node
CDN Manager Agent VOD Server VOD Server

Agent

VOD Server

VOD Server

VOD Server

Storage VOD Server VOD Server Storage VOD Server

Central Node

VoD servers redundancy

Agent VOD Server VOD Server Storage VOD Server VOD Server Agent VOD Server Storage VOD Server

CDN Agent redundancy

Regional Node
Agent VOD Server VOD Server VOD Server VOD Server Agent Agent VOD Server VOD Server VOD Server VOD Server VOD Server VOD Server Agent VOD Server VOD Server

Storage

Storage

Storage

Storage

Edge Node

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CDN Mechanism---- CDN Redundancy

Redundancy

in storage

SAN storage:
SAN storage provides full redundancy to eliminate the single point of failure and increase the reliability. It could also provide a great storage space, It has high performance and speed, high usability and easy management. It realizes network storage and smoothly scaling, which enhances storage reliability. SAN storage adopts segment storages with multi-copies, which has high reliability and more IO equilibrium. VOD Server VOD Server VOD Server VOD Server

Agent

Storage

VCDN Solution
SP
VSP1 SMS CMS EPG VSP2 VSP3

Features
VCDN (Virtual content delivery network) designed for multi service operators Uniform platform, virtual

SMS CMS EPG

SMS CMS EPG

operation space for virtual SPs VSPs have complete SMS, CMS

CDN 1
Content

CDN 2
Content Content

CDN 3
Content Content

function

CDN

Content

User group 3

Content could be shared between VSPs Personalized EPG for each VSP

Content

Content

Content

User group 1

User group 2

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CDN Highlight
Push Content distribution mode High-performance processing capability

Global load balancing mechanism

Carrier-class reliability

Live relay and forwarding function

Convenient VCDN operating

Seamless scalability

Powerful network management

Contents

ZTE IPTV Solution S Successful Application Case f l A li ti C ZTE IPTV Solution Highlight

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CANTV of Venezuela IPTV Case

Central node connection map in first term

Headend connection map in first term CANTV IPTV scale is 1.27 million for 6 years(2009-2014). years(2009 2014). In first term, one level CDN structure, users scale is 70k, VoD concurrent users are 695. Service including: VoD, Live TV, TSTV, TVoD, information browser, Mosaic and PIP.

Beltelecom of Belarus IPTV Case

One level CDN structure in first term System capacity is 30k. Real user 2.3kSTB contract 4.8k 4 8k Service including:

Live TV, VoD, nVOD, TVOD, TSTVnPVRMusic on demand, HD service, EPG tools, gaming, unified communication, information service and karaoke.

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VNPT of Vietnam IPTV Case

Service including
First stage services Broadcast TV channel with SD standard Broadcast audio channel VoD (SD) Time shift TV (SD) TV on Demand (SD) EPG Second stage services Broadcast TV channel with HD standard VoD (HD) Time shift TV (HD) TV on Demand (HD) Near Video on Demand (SD/HD) local PVR Usage Sta. Video Conference TV e-mail Betting Multi players games E-education E education SMS/MMS Media Sharing PIP Mosaic Directional AD push VOD download Other interactive service proposed more by Bidder

VNPT IPTV scale is 1.5 million for 5 years. In first term, two level CDN structure with one central node and three edge nodes. system scale is 60k, terminal scale is 20k.

Parental Lock iPPV Tele Marketing Tele Voting Walled Garden NPVR Banner AD Games on demand Live channel AD insertion Karaoke VOD AD insertion

Central node connection map in first term

Internet on TV TV Messaging

Shanghai Telecom of China IPTV Network

Central node

Area central node

Area central node

Area central node

Area central node

Edge node Edge node

Edge node Edge node

Edge node Edge node

Edge node Edge node

Edge node Edge node

Edge node Edge node

Edge node Edge node Edge node Edge node

Edge node Edge node Edge node Edge node

The first and second terms of Shanghai IPTV project adopt two level CDN structure: one central node + N edge nodes

Edge node

The third and forth terms of Shanghai IPTV project enlarge to third level CDN structure: Third term: one central node + 2 area central nodes + N edge nodes Fourth term: one central node + 4 area central nodes +N edge nodes

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Shanghai Telecom IPTV Success Factors

Broadband Penetration
Marketing

Large broadband user base: 3 million subscribers with high loyalty Sufficient bandwidth: up to 4 Mbps on average

Success Factors

Promotion Annual pay (only pay for 10 monthsmonths 2 months free) Discount when bundling with EHome services Free STB for two-years contract

Content Variety and Appeal

Win-win partnership with SMG on content acquisition Compelling and competitive content to attract users Different contents including TV programs from Hong Kong, new release movies Convenience with TSTV & TVOD: watch TV at any time Value-added services increases the profit

Jiangsu Telecom of China IPTV Case

Central node (Nanjing)

Area central (Nanjing)

Area central (Suzhou)

Three level CDN structure Expansion in three scheduled time. System capacity is 500k. Real user 400k

Edge node

Edge d Ed node

Service including: VoD, Live TV, TSTV, TVoD, Personal shadow Blog Video 365Party education, sports lottery application and payment.

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Chonqing Telecom of China IPTV Case

Two level CDN structure Expansion in two scheduled time. System capacity is 160k.

Central node (New torii)

Real user 40k Service including: VoD, Live TV, TSTV, TVoD, Voting, Game and Personal shadow Blog.

Edge node

Edge node

New torii

Da Guanyin ping rock

Saping Nan ba ping

Wan Zhou

Fujian Telecom IPTV Platform Electronic Ad Case

Service processing

CMS

CDR service

Two level CDN structure Whole province 12000 Ad terminals

EPG

NMS DRM

Electronic Ad operating platform

Adopting integrated STB+ LCD Supporting local storage Expecting the ratio of input and output is 11.46 for three years

Province central VDN node

Quanzhou VDN node: Third floor in Puming

IP Backbone

Fujian VDN node: fourth floor in Changxiang Longyan VDN node: Nanping VDN node: fifth floor in Fourth floor in Jiefang road Putian VDN node: Command building Zhangzhou VDN node: Third floor in yihua Ningde VDN node: Fifth floow in second Xiamen VDN node: Fifth floor in laiyin city substation Sanming VDN node: Nine floor in Jiangtou Fourth floor in xiayang

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Contents

ZTE IPTV Solution S Successful Application C f l A li ti Case ZTE IPTV Solution Highlight

ZTE IPTV Solution Highlight

Open Architecture Strong R&D Team Rich Experience Ri h E i Innovative Revenue Services Fast Customization Advanced Technology Easy TV QoE SafeMedia Convergence with Telecom Networks High Reliability & Security Design More Exciting Tomorrow--ZTE Multi-Play Solution

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Open Architecture
Encoder Partners

CA/DRM Middleware VOD Server Terminal

CP&SP

Strong R&D Team

15 R&D centers around the world

San Diego Dallas New Jersey NanJing Beijing Shenzhen Tianjing Shanghai

Xian Chongqing, Chongqing Chengdu Stockholm Vienne Islamabad Bangalore

15 R&D centers around the world. 3 R&D are working for IPTV, IPTV R&D engineer is more than 1100. Dalls:new technology; Nanjing: DRM, middle ware, mobile TV; Shenzhen: CDN, STB; Member of ITU, 3GPP, 3GPP2, ETSI, WiMAX, OMA, Open IPTV Forum, etc ITU-T FGIPTV WG3 Chairman (Dong WANG), ITU-T FGIPTV WG1 Editor (Mingdong LI)

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Rich Experience
IPTV System Platform Home Gateway Video Conference U.K. Bulgaria g North America Greece Tunisia Egypt Saudi Arabia Laos Thailand Ghana Columbia Congo Venezuela Angola g Kazakstan Esthonia Russia Lithuania Belarus Mongolia More than 17 Sites in China Hong Kong Vietnam

ZTE Multimedia Products Application in the World

IPTV system applications in the world: 20 application cases, more than 2000K commercial users. The application IPTV case is Shanghai, Jiangsu, Belarus Beltelecom ,Venezuela CANTV, Vietnam VNPT, Columbia Emcali and Thailand Freeinternet etc.

Innovative Revenue Services

Basic Services:
Live TV VOD Music on Demand SD/HD TV

Quality of Experience:
TSTV NPVR NVOD TVOD Parental Control PIP Mosaic TV Fast Zapping

Value added:
Advertisement Video Call/Conference Monitoring

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Fast Customization
Service customization:

TV shopping Karaoke Gaming Live video conference Remote Education

User Interface customization:

Advanced Technology
TR069
Auto-configuration Auto-upgrade

Integrated Blade Server

Lower power, cooling and space Improved stability Lower cost repair & troubleshooting

Lower TCO

STB QoS Tools

Video Stream Real-time monitoring Customized Reports generation by using ZTE NMS

Higher QoS

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EasyTV QoE

EPG 1S

Video quality HD

Fast F t zapping 1.5S i 1 5S

VOD 2S

One key on switching g PIP

Mosaic

EasyTV QoE
EPG responding
EPG page loading time is related to the following factors:

Network status N t k t t

Page content needs to be downloaded from system side via carrier network, loading time will increase if network is busy.

EPG 1S

Complexity page script

There are several script compiling for the same page, certainly there will be sizeable difference for the executing efficiency when different compiling script is used on the browser.

Complexity image

Apparently, simpler image and smaller size image will bring faster image decoding. Image format of ZTE IP STB for fastest decoding is GIF format, then JPG, the last is PNG.

ZTE has extensive experience in live networks on how to optimize EPG pages to lower the complexity of the script and image. Page loading time is 1 second in normal network, in ZTE commercial IPTV project.

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EasyTV QoE
Fast zapping
A/Vslow sync solution

TheAudioandVideopackagewhichSTBreceivedwerenotsync,it hasabout100300msdelay(dependonthestatusofnetwork),Aiming atthisdelay,ZTEadoptsapatentslowA/Vsynctechnician.While STBreceivestheAudiopackage,itwilldisplaythevideowithout waitingthesynchrovideopackage.Asthefigureonright.

Fast zapping 1.5S 1 5S

NoRTSP processfor multicast

Innormalway,notonlyformulticast,butalsoforVOD,STBmust setuplinkthoughRTSP.ButinZTEsolution,forthemulticastprogram, wealreadysendprogramlisttoSTBatfirst,whileusersswitch anotherprogram,STBwilladdintothenewmulticastgroupdirectly, withoutredirection,wecanomittheRTSPprocessformulticast program,soitcanreducethewaitingtimeofchannelchange.

Sincewesavethelastframeofthepreviouschannelbefore switching,untilSTBreceivescodestreamfromthenewchannel,which eliminatesblackscreencausedbyswitchingchannelinthepast.. Thereforefromtheviewofuserexperience,theswitchtimewillbe shortened.

Savingthe lastpicture

EasyTV QoE
VOD responding

VOD 2S A/V slow sync solution Fast sending mechanism

Same as fast zapping

Steaming media server adopts the fast sending of code stream to optimize the VOD responding, which could promote decoder bu e buffer to fast reach t e t es o d for decod g ast eac the threshold o decoding and quicken STBs video play.

Note
The fast sending of code stream means that in unicast program, streaming media server adopts high code rate to send stream when it sends unicast in the first seconds.

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EasyTV QoE
One key on switching

Live TV
One key

TVOD
One key

VOD
One key

One key On switching

One key on switching

ZTE STB remote controller has one key to direct enter the responding program such as Live TV , TVOD, VOD. If you are in VOD, you could press Live TV key to directly enter Live TV program, same as TVOD. The above mode is convenient for subscribers to use, provides good QoE experience.

EasyTV QoE
STB QoS testing

Video quality

STB QoS Testing

Regular Monitor
In normal services, STB monitors the information such as packet losing of the network, media code rate in real time, which will be recorded on STB, Network Management System (NMS) could query the relative information through Tr069.

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EasyTV QoE
Packet losing compensation --UDP FEC in Live TV
Reconstruction to receiving original stream and FEC redundant stream, which guarantees users view quality. hi h t i lit

Video quality

Original stream +FEC redundant stream

Live broadcasting network server

Internet
100 original packets +6 redundant packets 98 original packets +5 redundant packets

F E C 100 packets

STB

Original stream carries through FEC operation, creates redundant stream for packet losing compensation of original stream in receiving end. Original stream and redundant stream send to receiving end synchronously, using redundant stream, receiving end compensates losing packets of original stream through FEC operation, then the integrated original stream could be received. Because of FEC operation, even if receiving end receives redundant stream with packet losing, it could also compensate or recover original stream.

EasyTV QoE
Packet losing compensation --UDP retransmission in VOD
Original stream + retransmission stream Video quality

UDP

Internet

UDP

UDP retransmission

STB buffer receives media streaming, before the stream is sent to decoder, STB checks whether it has packets losing, if it has, STB sends the packet losing message to streaming server through RTCP. The t Th streaming server receives RTCP message, sends the losing i i d th l i packets to STB again in the first time.

Instruction
The above UDP retransmission function could guarantee the users experience in network with light packet losing about 2%.

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SafeMedia
VCAS Broadcast Encryption

SafeMedia
VCAS VOD Encryption

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SafeMedia
Children lock function

Parents apply for locking some channel

When children watch TV, they apply for inputting password d

High Reliability & Security Design

Physical redundancy & R d d t network d i k design Redundant t

Availability Reliability
Reliable network operation Reliable service delivery

End-to-end service provisioning

Manageability QoS
End to End QoS Prioritize & differentiate

Scalable CDN & Middleware network architecture

Scalability Security
Authentication, encryption integrity check, access control

Leading Edge Access For all infrastructures

Ubiquity

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Convergence with Telecom Networks

SMS
IPTV < -- > IPTV IPTV < -- > Handset

Digital Home
ZTE STB

IPTV-->HG Monitoring-->HG VoIP-->HG Printer-->HG PDA-->HG

TV
Video Call
IPTV < -- > IPTV IPTV < -- > 3G Handset IPTV < -- > PSTN

Mobile

TV Mail
IPTV < -- > IPTV IPTV < -- > Internet

PC

More Exciting Tomorrow--ZTE Multi-Play Solution

Services
VCS Live TV VOD Video Monitor 3rd Party

Service Control

NMS CMS VAS Adaptor

Service Control

CDR

S S SMS Softswitch Smooth migration to IMS CA/DRM

EPG USN BSS

Headend

Central CDN

CDN

Encoder

LCDN1 Distributed EPG

LCDN n

IP and Access

DSL/ XPON

SR

BAS
IP Network

SR

GGSN/SGSN

OSS

ZTE STB

CPE

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Summary of ZTE IPTV Solution

ZTE can provide excellent IPTV solution

ZTE stands top in China IPTV market and is top-ranked in the world IPTV p market.

Summary

ZTE can offer more fast customization for IPTV operators

ZTE has perfect and cost-effective IPTV products

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