As the amount of video playback devices in the home proliferates, service providers need to look beyond delivering raw bandwidth, and focus on delivering the right bandwidth to the right devices. As multiple devices jockey for bandwidth, service providers will be challenged to ensure smartphones, tablets, big screen HDTVs, and game consoles can all live in video harmony.
Alcatel-Lucent Senior Director of Solutions Marketing Tom Fuerst outlines the importance of smart bandwidth, which ensures the right bandwidth is delivered to the right device at the right time, creating a video harmony for the digital home. Fuerst suggests that this important concept of the ‘right bandwidth’ all too often gets lost in the ongoing debate of how much bandwidth should be delivered to the home.
