I am the Engineering Director for a company that builds fitness console equipment. Our multimedia consoles receive normal ATSC/NTSC/QAM signals to display TV Video. I would like to add the capability of receiving IPTV as well. So, in a sense, this multimedia console would act like a STB and TV built in it.

As I am diving into this capability, the main question is how does a STB know how to communicate to an IPTV provider?

Now, in the ATSC/NTSC/QAM, it is easy to understand decode the modulation to determine valid channels and the display per that channel when the user selects it.

Any guidance/direction to what I am looking for is great. Any body at AT&T can point me out to their new product development group would also be appreciated.

Do they work with wireless routers?

Is there any wireless interferance?

Which ones are both cost effective and good quality?

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Verizon FIOS typically uses an ActionTec MI424-WR or a Westell 9100.

Verizon appears to at least be blocking incoming port 80 traffic, and outgoing port 25 traffic.

Link to Verizon FIOS

It looks like they only offer speeds up to 18Mbps at this time. They do offer lower "express" packages of 1.5Mbps, and other packages all the way to the 18Mbps package. They offer IPTV and VoIP services as well.

I only recall one case with a SkyAngel customer who had this service, and they were provided the 2Wire 3800 gateway. This entire Uverse system was on WPA: the wireless gateway, the wireless computers, the wireless Uverse IPTV box. This was before the 2.5.0 upgrade so the STB wouldn't connect wirelessly. If WPA is a typical Uverse setup, SkyAngel would have to be hardwired (or their network temporarily reconfigured to WEP) so the STB can connect and download the upgrade, and thus be compatible with WPA.

• Arris TM502/TM602 VoIP cable modems
• Motorola SBv5220 VoIP cable modems

These seem to cause some buffering issues.
What are your thoughts on these?

I have found some ISPs are willing to lease a second cable modem to their customers. Comcast usually charges $3 more a month for a second cable modem. This way the customer will have one modem dedicated to their VoIP service and another modem dedicated to providing bandwidth to the home network and SkyAngel.

Theoretically this should solve any VoIP related problems if the customer is using a VoIP cable modem.

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