Architectural Trade-offs for Video Transport Networks
Didier Colle, Goutam Das, Mario Pickavet, Piet Demeester · Optical Fiber Communication Conference · 2010
Several architectural aspects and options are discussed for producing video based services: storage and transcoder placement, routing and (staggered) multi-casting, buffering/smoothing and retiming streams, separate handling of I-frames from B-/P-frames and applying optical flow switching.