Video Services

The challenge of delivering video services is inspiring a high-level of activity and innovation in communications standards bodies and the marketplace. For example, more than 100 network operators and 50 million subscribers are already using 3G-324M, an umbrella standard for the delivery of real-time multimedia services over existing circuit-switched mobile networks. You can learn more about 3G-324M and mobile video delivery in the Dialogic white paper Mobile Video - A New Opportunity.

Now carriers, developers, and standards bodies are focused on a new challenge - converging video services. Alternatively called "three screens," "multi-screen," or the "new triple play," converged video services will allow the same content to be displayed simultaneously with equal clarity on television, a laptop or desktop computer, and a mobile handheld. Converged video services present a huge market opportunity and are inspiring a high-energy competition among developers. Unlike 3G-324M, achieving converged video services requires a powerful combination of standards and techniques that include intensive transcoding and transrating. You can read more about this this subject in a new Dialogic white paper called Finding Success in a Multi-Screen World.

Here are other Dialogic white papers that discuss video:

Bringing Video to the Mobile Handheld Market: Background, Challenges, and Potential presents a brief background on the evolution of the mobile wireless network, discusses some of the challenges to be overcome to make video to the mobile handheld practical, not only as a source of entertainment but also as an enhanced collaborative business-communication tool, and presents some scenarios on the potential for video to the mobile handheld market.

Addressing Video Processing Challenges with the IP Multimedia Subsystem: Performance, Architecture, and Network Topologies discusses how the IMS network can be used to convert video content so that it is accessible to any user, and how network-based processing techniques could be applied to a wide variety of applications.

Quality of Experience for Mobile Video Users distinguishes between traditional Quality of Service (QoS), which emphasizes network performance, and Quality of Experience (QoE), which concentrates on the overall experience the viewer has when using a service, specifically video services. Aspects of QoE considered include how video quality is typically measured, information about tools and techniques in use today, and suggestions for promising ways to measure video quality in the future.