A method for a Traffic Management of the Video on Demand Services and Video Data Transfers in a Network, comprising steps of - Sending, via a real time streaming protocol, a RTSP request for a Video Data File from a Customer Premises Equipment to an Access Node, which does hold a Data Base about available Local Video Servers, the Data Base holding announcement messages announcing availability of the Local Video Servers wherein information is added to the announcement messages about path costs determined by at least one of the hop counts and/or the bandwidth at each link node and/or the number of streams available and/or the Data Transfer Rate and/or the Quality of Service (QoS) and/or the Class of Service (CoS); - investigation for the Local Video Server with the best path cost through the requested Access Node by sending a request for the Video Data File via a Video Traffic Management Protocol (VTMP), the Video Traffic Management Protocol supporting topology investigation and discovering the local video server with the best path cost; - when at least one Local Video Server answers with an offer, because it has already stored that requested Video Data File: ∘ the Access Node selects the Local Video Server which answers with an offer with the best path cost or, if such is not found, the only one available; ∘ then the Access Node is forwarding the RTSP request to that selected Local Video Server. - when there is no offer from anyone of the Local Video Servers about availability of requested Video Data File: ∘ the Access Node is selecting, from the data base, the one Local Video Server with the best path cost; ∘ then the Access Node is forwarding the RTSP request to the selected Local Video Server; ∘ this selected Local Video Server is then requesting the requested Video Data File from the Video Head End; then the Local Video Server is forwarding a Video Data Stream to the requesting client and stores this Video Data Stream in a video cache wherein the investigation of the best path cost among a plurality of Local Video Servers is implemented through comparison of available information about respective path costs. - Sending, via a real time streaming protocol, a RTSP request for a Video Data File from a Customer Premises Equipment to an Access Node, which does hold a Data Base about available Local Video Servers, the Data Base holding announcement messages announcing availability of the Local Video Servers wherein information is added to the announcement messages about path costs determined by at least one of the hop counts and/or the bandwidth at each link node and/or the number of streams available and/or the Data Transfer Rate and/or the Quality of Service (QoS) and/or the Class of Service (CoS); - investigation for the Local Video Server with the best path cost through the requested Access Node by sending a request for the Video Data File via a Video Traffic Management Protocol (VTMP), the Video Traffic Management Protocol supporting topology investigation and discovering the local video server with the best path cost; - when at least one Local Video Server answers with an offer, because it has already stored that requested Video Data File: ∘ the Access Node selects the Local Video Server which answers with an offer with the best path cost or, if such is not found, the only one available; ∘ then the Access Node is forwarding the RTSP request to that selected Local Video Server. ∘ the Access Node selects the Local Video Server which answers with an offer with the best path cost or, if such is not found, the only one available; ∘ then the Access Node is forwarding the RTSP request to that selected Local Video Server. - when there is no offer from anyone of the Local Video Servers about availability of requested Video Data File: ∘ the Access Node is selecting, from the data base, the one Local Video Server with the best path cost; ∘ then the Access Node is forwarding the RTSP request to the selected Local Video Server; ∘ this selected Local Video Server is then requesting the requested Video Data File from the Video Head End; ∘ the Access Node is selecting, from the data base, the one Local Video Server with the best path cost; ∘ then the Access Node is forwarding the RTSP request to the selected Local Video Server; ∘ this selected Local Video Server is then requesting the requested Video Data File from the Video Head End;