Tele2 selects Digital Fountain’s ToughStream Solution to further improve their IPTV service. After successful trials, ToughStream is now live and operational on Tele2’s IPTV network, providing protection against “glitches,” or visible errors that naturally occur when delivering real-time media over IP networks.

ToughStream is a software solution that eliminates video and audio degradation caused by packet loss, latency or out-of-order delivery. These effects are normal and prevalent conditions on all IP networks because IP is, by design, a “best effort” delivery protocol. Because it is a software-based solution, ToughStream is highly configurable, and easy to deploy on any IPTV network. An extraordinarily scalable solution, ToughStream has negligible hardware requirements while providing high QoE including fast channel change times.

ToughStream is powered by Digital Fountain’s DF Raptor technology. DF Raptor has been adopted by several IPTV standards, including DVB-IPTV as well as several mobile multimedia standards including 3GPP MBMS and DVB-H. Other standards bodies are currently evaluating DF Raptor as a best practices standard for high-quality IPTV and mobile multimedia service delivery.