IP over DVB

• Data broadcast (datacast), for example a data carousel sending programme information and media over and over again.
• IP multicast, for sending media efficiently to a limited group of subscribing users, using only the transmitter towers where users for the moment are situated.
• interactive TV services
• To provide internet access by utilizing the DVB system as a broadband downlink, in combination with some narrow-band duplex system. Examples:
  • Satellite Internet access, e.g. to buildings in the countryside, using a telephone modem as the back-channel
  • Broadband Internet access to trains
  • Mobile broadband internet access to cellular phones including a mobile TV receiver, for example a DVB-H receiver.

All services except the first requires some kind of return channel.

• DVB-RCT (DVB Return Channel Terrestrial)
• DVB-RCS (DVB Return Channel via Satellite)
• Dial-up modems
• ADSL
• VDSL
• Cable modems
• 2.5G
• 2.75G (also called E)
• 2.875G (also called E+)
• 3G
• 3G+ (also called H)
• HSPA+ (also called H+)
• 4G
• 4G+
• 5G

• Generic Stream Encapsulation (GSE), ETSI TS 102 606: "Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB); Generic Stream Encapsulation (GSE) Protocol", European Telecommunications Standard Institute (ETSI)

• MPEG Multiprotocol encapsulation (MPE), or ETSI-DAT. EN 301 192, "Specifications for Data Broadcasting", European Telecommunications Standards Institute(ETSI), 2004.
• MPEG Unidirectional Lightweight Encapsulation (ULE) (RFC 4326)
• Unidirectional link (UDE)
• DVB-HIPdatacasting IPDC

DVB-IPTV is an open DVB standard that enables Audio/Video services to be delivered to and through the home via Internet Protocol networking. DVB-IPTV was formerly known as DVB-IPI.^{[citation needed]}

• DVB-MHP (Multimedia Home Platform)

• Official website  
• DVB Specifications (Standards & BlueBooks)