IP TV or Internet Protocol Television is a new development in client-server communication software that makes high-quality video broadcast (equivalent full-motion video in real time simultaneously) to the user's window through a network of existing data. IP TV can serve a two-way broadcast television, high speed internet network, without using frekuwesi broadcast. Internet TV before, can be regarded as a process of integration between the Internet with a computer, to capture television broadcasts through your computer screen. Meanwhile, IP TV is a digital transmission type of convergence is the combination of telecommunication with television. IP TV Viewers can control the television channels through the television set, not a computer screen, as well as analog television era, with the help of set-top-boxes. IP TV Viewers can choose a large number of broadcasts, both live broadcast and rebroadcast with diverse content, and two-way, without any interference. For example, one can access the IP TV to know the identity of a particular football player, when he was watching a football game or at the same time, she can shop via IP TV. Plus, IP TV viewers can enjoy high-definition image and sound quality good, the help system digitalization.
The main components of IPTV is a STB (set top box) that can convert the IP video into satndar sutau television signal. STB is the gateway to an IP video switching system. In the picture looks that Switched Video Service (SVS) system allows users to connect to a wide variety of sources of television media including broadcast network channels, subscription services, and movies on demand. When the user decides to access these media sources, the command (usually by using the remote control) diirimkan to the SVS and the SVS will arrange where the source media that meets the user desires. The diagram below shows the user only needs to SVS indecent video channel to access the virtual multiple sources of media and video.
Some of the features given by the IP / TV are:
• IP / TV can broadcast live or prerecorded video digital educational programs, commercials, etc., and can do the capturing and transmission of programs from various sources.
• IP / TV can do the scheduling / scheduling program in accordance with the needs of owners of information and audience. Viewer can choose courses from a listing to be seen.
• IP / TV can provide an economical service but do not sacrifice the quality of service. This is because the transmission bandwidth-efficient technologies, namely IP multicasting.
• IP / TV supports standard formats MPEG (Motion Picturre Experts Group) to provide high quality, full-motion video. This feature is in addition to the standard CODEC (compression / decompression) to ensure optimal picture quality in accordance with the specifications of the application and available bandwidth.
• When compared with the conventional tutorial method, IP / TV is more efficient because they do not have to pay the instructors, the cost of relatively few print materials, no need to hire a special seminar room (for IP / TV can be accessed by every table during connected in a LAN / WAN ).
Factors-Factors Affecting IPTV Qualitya. Encoding and CompressionThe quality of the videos that are distributed through a network can be influenced by the source of the video head end. The process of encoding and compression usually always have a relationship between the quality of the video with the desired compression value. in addition, based on the encoding and compression techniques used, the amount of video information per IP packets will change. Therefore, IP packets are lost (lossA) will merepresantsikan a vanishing point that is not visible from a video sequence or degradation in the period in which a large, pixel damage, and also the inability to display images.
b. Jitter
A typical IP packet carrying MPEG-2 video data-stream data consists of 7 MPEG transport stream packets that each contains a payload with a size of 184 bytes and a 4-byte header. The results will produce 36 bytes, plus the overhead packet-sized UDP header 8 bytes, 20 bytes for the IP header of 14 bytes for an ethernet header and 10 bytes for ATM overhead, for a total frame size of 1367 bytes. Jitter is defined variation in packet arrival time (packet arrival rate), caused by network congestion or server. If the ethernet frames coming into the STB at a rate faster or slower, depending on network conditions, buffering is required to meperhalus the variation of speed. Based on the size of the buffer, adad several conditions that make a buffer overflow or underflow which will result in video degradation. Menegathui characteristics of the STB, the service provider may be able to determine the maximum jitter that can be supported by IPTV network.
c. Limited Bandwidth
The total amount of video data stream that can be sent is limited depending on the speed of data needed by consumers via ADSL/ADSL2. The core infrastructure of IP (IP Core) is usually based on optical network with the level of congestion (congestion). Therefore, the bandwidth limitation is usually located only in the access network or in a home network from subscribers. When the traffic (traffic) reaches a maximum value, and then discarded so that the package will reduce the quality of the video. Speed of ADSL2 possibility can be temporally influenced by external factors such as pixelization of the image, another situation is the amount of data downloaded to a PC simultaneously and priority traffic can not be corrected by the service provider so that the streaming video package could be lost.This can mengakibtkan packet loss and therefore decrease the quality, bandwidth limitations are one important factor that must be evaluated in stages to create a network design.
Activities that can be supported IP / TV
1. Training Employees
Education and staff training strategies that are vital to the success of a
an enterprise and skills of employees for their career. Training is usually done is to send employees to training centers that can spend a big enough budget, not to mention the cost of accommodation and transportation of employees to be borne by the company as long as they undergo training. Therefore, IP / TV can provide alternative solutions, which can provide expert training staff quickly and whenever needed (without the need for time travel time), do not need to move employees away from their posts, and can save you budget accommodation and travel for employees during training.
2. Distance Learning
IP / TV can be used as a medium to conduct training / distance education (distance learning). IP / TV will carry all the information in a seminar or conference or activity directly to a computer lecture audience with a live broadcast satellite, cable or via the internet. Distance learning can also be used by divisions of the company to send each other information required by section / employee who still require training / guidance in the field. When viewed from the interests of education, universities can provide long-distance lecture to his students regardless of where he came from, and whenever he needs information. Featured IP / TV viewer Question Manager can be used to ask directly (online) to the instructor / teacher that can take an interactive atmosphere as in class.



