Summary

Recommendation ITU-T J.701 defines components of a broadcast-centric IPTV terminal middleware and provides a high-level description of functionality necessary to support IPTV services. These definitions and descriptions are intended to provide a migration path from existing terminal middlewarefor current digital broadcasting, with enhancements for IPTV support, to meet immediate market demand to deploy IPTV services.

This Recommendation also describes the terminal middleware architecture and its relationship with the service platform. Additionally, this Recommendation provides a table of application programming interface (API) classifications.