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News Release from: RadioScape | Subject: DMB gateway
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 15 September 2003
Multimedia gateway debuts at IBC
Today RadioScape will launch its DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) gateway at the IBC2003 exhibition in RAI, Amsterdam, Holland.
Today RadioScape will launch its DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) gateway at the IBC2003 exhibition in RAI, Amsterdam, Holland This extension to its pioneering DAB Broadcast Suite provides robust real-time digital video and multimedia on fixed and mobile DAB receivers for the first time
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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RadioScape was the first to demo video over DAB, in conjunction with Microsoft, NTL Broadcast and Tandberg Television, at the NAB show earlier this year with its IP gateway and has now enhanced the technology with this DMB gateway that enables the video to be sent in a streamed mode subchannel rather than using a packetised UDP/IP datastream.
The lack of packetisation overhead, combined with the higher bandwidth and extra forward error protection, gives a more robust, better quality reception especially on the move.
"RadioScape is again at the forefront of innovation with the announcement", said Dave Hawkins, RadioScape's DAB Business Development Manager.
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"DAB is such a robust technology and was designed from the start to be used on the move - even at speeds of several hundred kilometres per hour - with low power consumption and the ability to cope with difficult fading conditions.
In addition, this is a one-to-many broadcast technology, unlike 3G's one to one, that puts little demand on the broadcast infrastructure.
Existing users of our broadcast suite can easily upgrade to it, which is one of the many benefits of our software driven approach".
The new DMB gateway broadcasts video and audio over a Eureka 147 DAB data channel and can handle all types of multimedia content such as Windows Media 9, MPEG-4 or RealVideo9 and includes Reed-Solomon error correction, Forney interleaving and ASI or USP/IP or file input.
Extra forward error correction further enhances the quality and stability of video transmission, which can be either a stream or a packet data channel, reinforcing DAB's ability to cope with error prone environments, especially in a mobile environment.
RadioScape's Eureka 147 DAB broadcast suite is the world's leading commercial solution for DAB broadcasting with over 40 installations worldwide including Taiwan, Korea, Spain, Belgium, and the UK where, via its partner NTL Incorporated, it is used in virtually every commercial DAB broadcasting multiplexer.
The key to its success is that it is the pioneering software based solution.
Most rival solutions are primarily hardware based whereas RadioScape's software based solution gives tremendous flexibility as new features and standards can be easily added via software.
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