ch as Netflix with its 100 million subscribers worldwide and Amazon Prime. Netflix and its www.TechnicalPDF.com competitors have an advantage in not needing to build broadband infrastructure to support their services. This eliminates the significant capital investment required to build a network, and lowers the barriers to entry into the market. Competitors such as these are referred to as over-the-top (OTT) providers. See Figure 6-1 for a diagram of OTT streaming. It is one impetus for people to opt for high-speed Internet access. In a quote from Netflix CFO David B. Wells at the Netflix 2017 third- quarter investor's conference, he says: When we try to explain the quarter-to-quarter perturbations or some of the lumpiness in our net additions, we tend to use explanations that sort of focus on the incremental, which could be content slate or a particular title that had some notable strength. But I think, in general, it is the continued adoption of Internet entertainment that is driving our growth, Time Warner's HBO GO.com division makes no-fee HBO content available online to cable TV subscribers of HBO. Subscribers that pay for HBO can watch any HBO Go content streamed on the Internet. Comcast and other cable companies now embrace TV over the Internet as a strategy to retain profits and subscribers for their pay-TV services in the face of competition from OTT providers. www.TechnicalPDF.com Cloud with Netflix, Disney and Amazon content Telephone company Equipment Fiber transmits content to neighborhood homes and apartments Figure 6-1 Over-the-top streaming between the content provider and residential locations. Specialized set-top boxes for streaming make it convenient for customers to receive streamed video from the Internet. Set-top devices have interfaces that enable communications between homes' Wi-Fi networks and televisions. The set-top boxes interface wirelessly to home Wi-Fi networks as well televisions. The set-top box connects to the television's HDMI port. These set-top boxes commonly also have an Ethe