Another big challenge is to offer greater flexibility and reduce the operational cost for providing video services. Once connected customers can easily set-up the distribution to various locations at limited additional costs. Flexibility in this case means the ease of setting up the connectivity, of establishing short term contract terms if required and flexibility in bandwidth allocation – all of which exceeds the capabilities of satellite transmission. Additionally, the network should offer services for broadcasters and publishers of the content such as on-demand service provisioning, with the ultimate aim to offer customer self- provisioning. While it is true that the Internet was never designed to handle the stringent requirements of broadcast services, new solutions have

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