Next generation of multimedia services - NGN based IPTV architecture

The telecommunication community, industry and also standardization bodies like ETSI TISPAN or ITU-T are actually working on the evolution of next generation network (NGN) architecture to enable providing of IPTV services over same NGN infrastructure. We will briefly present the current standardization efforts in ETSI TISPAN to standardize IPTV platforms and summary of relevant specification. We provide outlook about possible migration path from current IPTV solutions which are not based on NGN towards NGN based IPTV platforms. There exist at least tree main steps in evolution concept which may be taken in to account and compared: NGN non-IMS solution, IMS based IPTV and the converged NGN IPTV architecture.