It's a very modern concept; just a few years ago telling
somebody that we would be watching entire television shows
streaming to our laptop might have raised an eyebrow, but now
with millions of households using applications like the iPlayer
as a viable alternative to the big screen the prospect of
television over IP is not just looming large but increasingly
prominent.  So as high data services become more popular, the
need for an infrastructure that can cope with not just one
stream but multiple ones becomes more pressing.. Do you need a
superfast connection to watch the iPlayer? Not currently, but
does it help if multiple people want to use the connection? Yes.
BBC iplayer  The other important word in that statement is
'currently'. The digital world is evolving so rapidly that it's
naïve to claim that anything other than superfast connections
will be the norm within the decade.  Already, the need for HD
streaming is becoming clearer as people use large screen
televisions to play content from the web, and