A Services-on-Demand Laboratory Demonstrator with PC-Based Set-Top Boxes

This paper describes a services-on-demand (SoD) laboratory demonstrator with personal computer (PC)-based set-top boxes (STBs). The implementation is part of a research project of Deutsche Telekom's Technology Centre, whose aim is the verification and demonstration of the general concept to use the German public online service “T-Online” with Internet access as a platform for SoD. The laboratory demonstrator extends the T-Online system by broadband downstream connections between the content server and the customers. Authentication, billing, and navigation through the SoD content are provided by the existing T-Online infrastructure. Based on a first step configuration with two example applications, a first performance analysis has been made.

Print ISSN

0036-1682

Published

1998-04

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/J06403