The development of IPTV implementation by TM UNifi

Nowadays, IP technology is very familiar to be combined with two ways broadband network. Most of the providers around the world are making significant investments in order to achieve complete digital video data delivery to the subscribers. However, it is important to understand the basic network that being used in IPTV system. Network traffic also will be considered to this system. The main objective of this paper is to study the characteristics of Internet Protocol Television (IPTV). The study focuses on its architecture, basic operations and IPTV protocols itself. Wireshark simulation programme has been used as a network protocol analyzer to analyze capture file such as User Datagram Protocol (UDP), Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and others. The operation of this system is fully generated by Internet Protocol (IP) based on Access Network System. Thus, based on this information, only several parameters of Wireshark will be chosen since Wireshark has many types of netwok traffic measurement. Here in Malaysia, IPTV which has been provided by TM UniFi shows that this service gives good reception to the subscribers even in bad weather.