IEC TR 60728-201:2024

Cable networks for television signals, sound signals and interactive services - Part 201: A study of IPTV systems with examples and applications for optical broadcast services

IEC TR 60728-201:2024 describes the technical background of IPTV systems and commercially available products related to audio, video and multimedia systems and equipment to enable cable operators and customers to understand current IPTV systems that include application, middleware, network, equipment and terminal devices. This document is to encourage all TA5 experts to develop new IS related to IPTV system over optical broadcast network. This Technical Report examines the mechanisms of IPTV systems developed by major standards development organizations (SDOs) and known national regulations. This document concludes with observations and recommendations for the potential future technical standards development activities especially for TA5 under the scope of TC 100.
The purpose of this TR is to give cable operators an appropriate way how to adopt IPTV services with current FTTH system recognizing that optical system is the best solution for the effective transmission of 4K and 8K video signals. This TR gives an overall but essential information on current IPTV systems to cable operators; however, too much detailed information is omitted due to the limitation of document size. The author of this document recommends the cable operator who plans to develop IPTV services to study the original international standards shown in this document. It also describes a migration from the HFC to FTTH system for effective introduction to IPTV services.
DOCSIS 4.0 can be considered on HFC as an alternative way to provide 10Gbps service. If bandwidth and other constraints (without Amp, etc.) are cleared, the IPTV service described in this document can of course be provided.
In addition to present international standards and recommendations, this document describes some major technology supporting IPTV services such as unicast, multicast, ABR (Adapting Bit Rate) and MPEG-DASH. The experiment of 4K and 8K video transmission over IP, virtual STB are also described.

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 20-Feb-2024
• ICS: 33.160.01 - Audio, video and audiovisual systems in general
• ICS: 33.160.99 - Other audio, video and audiovisual equipment
• ICS: 33.180.10 - Fibres and cables
• Technical Committee: TA 5 - Cable networks for television signals, sound signals and interactive services
• Current Stage: PPUB - Publication issued
• Start Date: 23-Feb-2024
• Completion Date: 21-Feb-2024

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IEC TR 60728-201 ®
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TECHNICAL
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Cable networks for television signals, sound signals and interactive services –

Part 201: A study of IPTV systems with examples and applications for optical

broadcast services
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 6
1 Scope . 8
2 Normative references . 8
3 Terms and definitions . 8
3.1 Terms and definitions . 8
3.2 Abbreviated terms . 10
4 Toward IPTV services . 11
4.1 Service scenario . 11
4.1.1 General . 11
4.1.2 IP unicast distribution technology . 12
4.1.3 IP multicast distribution technology . 12
4.1.4 Migration to ALL IP FTTH NETWORK . 13
4.1.5 Step 1 . 13
4.1.6 Step 2 . 14
4.2 Quality assurance . 14
4.2.1 General . 14
4.2.2 Carrier's network quality assurance . 15
4.2.3 Customer premises' network quality assurance . 16
4.2.4 QoE for Progressive Download and DASH . 17
5 Technologies for supporting service . 17
5.1 IPTV Protocols . 17
5.1.1 Classification based on video streaming system configuration . 17
5.1.2 First-mile streaming protocol . 18
5.1.3 Last-mile streaming protocol . 19
5.2 ABR and M-ABR . 20
5.2.1 ABR (adaptive bit rate) . 20
5.2.2 M-ABR (multicast adaptive bit rate) . 21
5.3 MPEG-DASH . 22
5.4 DRM and CENC . 23
5.4.1 DRM . 23
5.4.2 CENC . 24
5.4.3 Watermark . 26
5.5 Virtualization . 26
5.5.1 vCPE (virtual customer premises equipment) . 26
5.5.2 Next generation STB (trend in the Japan cable industry) . 27
5.5.3 Virtual STB (cloud supported CPE) . 27
5.5.4 Network virtualization technology and vCPE . 28
5.6 Proof of concept experiments of video broadcasting through IP streaming . 29
5.6.1 Verification experiments on IP streaming of 4K broadcast . 29
5.6.2 Advanced broadcasting system using broadband (M-ABR validation) . 29
5.6.3 Low latency streaming technology for live streaming (CMAF validation) . 30
6 Migration to IP over FTTH . 31
6.1 General . 31
6.2 Grand Design toward All IP services . 32
6.3 HFC (hybrid fibre coaxial) system . 32
6.4 Strategies to All IP from HFCs . 33

6.5 Completion of All IP Migration from HFC around 2025 . 34
6.6 FTTH (up to 10G) system configuration . 34
6.7 FTTH (up to 100G) system configuration . 35
6.8 Migration strategies to all IP from FTTH . 36
6.9 Completion of All IP migration from FTTH around 2030 . 37
Annex A (informative) ATSC 3.0 Broadcast System . 38
A.1 General . 38
A.2 Overview of the ATSC 3.0 system . 38
A.3 System specification . 38
A.3.1 General . 38
A.3.2 Description of the ATSC 3.0 standard . 39
A.3.3 Emergency messaging . 42
A.3.4 Accessibility. 42
A.3.5 Personalization . 43
A.4 Receiver protocol stack . 43
A.5 Convergence of broadcast and broadband services . 43
Annex B (informative) NHK Plus: Simultaneous streaming of broadcast signal through
internet . 45
B.1 General . 45
B.2 Overview of system specification . 45
B.3 On-demand service . 45
B.4 Video Masking . 46
B.5 Overview of streaming technology. 46
B.6 Overview of streaming facility . 47
B.7 Overview of streaming platform . 48
Annex C (informative) Cable 4K IP . 50
C.1 General . 50
C.2 Abstract of service . 50
C.2.1 General . 50
C.2.2 Number of subscribers . 50
C.3 Concept of Cable 4K IP platform . 50
C.4 IP distribution . 51
Annex D (informative) Optical TV . 52
D.1 General . 52
D.1.1 Overview . 52
D.1.2 Services . 52
D.1.3 Subscribers . 52
D.1.4 Technical features . 52
D.1.5 An example of Specification . 52
D.2 Requirements . 52
D.2.1 Service requirements . 52
D.2.2 IPTV system model . 53
D.3 Customer premises' network . 54
D.3.1 Equipment logical connection . 54
Annex E (informative) DVB-I . 55
E.1 General . 55
E.2 DVB-I components and interfaces . 55
E.3 Conceptual model of a DVB-I client . 56

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E.4 Service discovery . 57
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