Content Delivery on IP Network: Service Providers and TV Broadcasters Business Repositioning

This paper examines the main evolution drivers for the content delivery market, as a consequence of the rapid increase in the UBB access networks coverage. The bandwidth increase has a strong impact on the IP network architecture. It will induce new players to be directly involved in Quality of Experience improvement, so pushing the advent of two-sided business models. We consider both cases of VoD and live streaming (linear TV) over IP networks and that of future MoVAR (Mobile Virtual and Augmented Reality) services, pointing out how Edge Cloud Computing can address some main cost and performance challenges in both fixed and mobile networks.