What are the major requirements for streaming wireless video?
Streaming IP video traffic over WiFi is quite different compared to streaming IP data traffic. First, to allow for service providers to offer WiFi as the home backbone for entertainment service – whole home coverage is required without any dead spots. Whole home coverage is an elusive target which depends not only on range but also on number of walls in the way and the material they are made of. North American homes are typically larger than European and Asian homes, however interior American walls are typically made of wood or plaster while European or Asian are brick walls. By nature video traffic is extremely sensitive to delays and packet loss which translate immediately into video artifacts. Therefore, even if range and coverage are achieved, guaranteed throughput and signal robustness with almost no packets loss (typically measured at better than one packet loss per hour of video watching) are required for successful video streaming. Overall, for a true wireless HD video home net
