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The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has conducted an experiment to make a transcontinental broadcast of a live event using IPTV technology based on ITU standards.

Live scenes were streamed form the Sapporo Snow Festival in Japan to the ITU headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, using native IPv6 and based on the ITU-T H.762 standard, described as a “Lightweight Interactive Multimedia Environment” (LIME) for IPTV services.

Hokkaido Television Broadcasting (HTB) developed the application, and is one of many broadcasters, manufacturers and research institutes involved in the IPTV experiments.

The experiments were organised by Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications (NICT) and are being conducted over its IPv6 research network, Japan Gigabit Network-eXtreme (JGN-X).

Other ITU-T IPTV standards also formed part of the infrastructure: H.770 IPTV Service discovery, H.721 IPTV terminal for VoD and Linear TV, H.701 IPTV Error correction, H.750 IPTV Metadata and the Primetime Emmy Award winning H.264 Video compression codec.

The experiments also used Openflow, PCE/VNTM and sa46t.

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