Luminous Networks Boosts IPTV

Luminous Networks(TM) announced today powerful new features for its award-winning PacketWave packet ring access platforms. These features, collectively called TLS-TE (Transparent LAN Service -- Traffic Engineered), directly address critical requirements that new telco IPTV services demand of the access network infrastructure to enable scalable, economical and secure services deployment. Critical factors for successful and profitable rollout of IPTV are efficient multicast, hard Quality of Service (QoS), sophisticated network resource management, and transport security.