IPTV in Jeopardy – response

Last week we ran a story (“Argentinean IPTV in Jeopardy”) that said that in some parts of the world IPTV distribution was a very expensive – and thus risky – business to get into. A reader gives would-be IPTV players some thoughts.

Aaron Keogh, from Matrixstream says: “IPTV rollouts in continents such as South America, South East Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe will continue to see deployment challenges in the years to come. These challenges will come in the form of low bandwidth fixed-line and wireless IP networks where high bandwidth IPTV solutions will have difficulty deploying due to bandwidth restrictions on all but extremely costly fibre (FTTH) IP networks.”

Keogh argues his point with a pitch: “Matrixstream Technologies overcomes this issue through it's low bandwidth end to end IPTV platform that can stream standard definition at 500Kbps and high definition at 1mbps with proprietary Matrixcast streaming technology on both private and public best effort networks, including Wimax and 3G over long distances. Matrixstream has the end to end, low bandwidth, high definition 1080p IPTV platform to enable telcos, ISPs, and best effort IP network IPTV projects to launch in countries in South America and all around the world.”