With the increasing demand for high-quality internet ser- vices, deploying GPON/Fiber-to-the-Home networks is one of the biggest challenges that internet providers have to deal with due to the signi - cant investments involved. Automated network design usage becomes more critical to aid with planning the network by minimising the costs of planning and deployment. The main objective is to tackle this problem of ...
This article describes the work done on the development of a Near Video on Demand system. The system is divided in several blocks, which were independently developed, although they are not autonomous. Thus, the main development effort was focused in the following subsystems: video channels coding (pseudo-dynamic encryption), video server and access controller, data transmission, both for downstream (server - te...