  The efficient provision of IPTV services requires support for IP multicasting
and IGMP snooping, limiting such services to single operator networks.
Information-Centric Networking (ICN), with its native support for multicast
seems ideal for such services, but it requires operators and users to overhaul
their networks and applications. The POINT project has proposed a hybrid,
IP-over-ICN, architecture, preserving IP devices and applications at the edge,
but interconnecting them via an SDN-based ICN core. This allows individual
operators to exploit the benefits of ICN, without expecting the rest of the
Internet to change. In this paper, we first outline the POINT approach and show
how it can handle multicast-based IPTV services in a more efficient and
resilient manner than IP. We then describe a successful trial of the POINT
prototype in a production network, where real users tested actual IPTV services
over both IP and POINT under regular and exceptional conditions. Results from
the trial show that the POINT prototype matched or improved upon the services
offered via plain IP.
