Broadband content distribution service and technologies (panel introduction)
Makoto Imase · 2005
Broadband content distribution service through the network has been one of the target applications for a decade and has not been realized yet completely. This panel explores the future images of the services and various kinds of key technologies to realize this service. NE of the broadband content distribution services may be Video-on-demand. Few years ago, there were many service trials was done using VDSL or over CATV. For an example, Time Warner's Full Service Network Project in 1994 in Florida is one of the famous projects. But at that time, trials were ended as trails. Instead of that, the Internet was got the huge user with the application of WWW and e-mail. Electronic commerce became another target of the Internet application. Right now there are a lot of shops on the Internet. Some are virtual shops, others are CLICK and MORTAR. In 1999, Napster started peer-to-peer file sharing service without digital right managements. It said that at a peak there were sixty millions of users to exchange MP3 files. Also we find a lot of site with Streaming Video on demand in the Internet, but we could only view by the small size or with low quality.