Ericsson views on bandwidth by video resolution and codec

Ericsson presented requirements for different resolutions using MPEG2, AVC and HEVC (p23). For example, using HEVC:

  • 8-25 Mbps for 4K
  • 2.5-4.5 Mbps for HD
  • 1-1.8 Mbps for SD
Ericsson also discuss rates of improvement in compression, roughly 50% every ten years (or 7% annually)

Ericsson, High Efficiency Video Coding, 13 August 2014
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