Emergency Response and Wireless Location Systems    by Manlio Allegra      Home         Topics: Main | Standards Organizations | Archive   FLO Forum Spec Boosts Interoperability The FLO Forum, a multi-company initiative led by QUALCOMM and dedicated to the global standardization of FLO (Forward Link Only) technology, introduced a new Multiplex Subsystem-to-Transmit Station Interface (MTI) specification that allows transmit stations from multiple manufacturers to be part of a single MediaFLO broadcast network. Transmit stations must be compliant with the MTI protocol to correctly broadcast a FLO waveform. FLO technology is a new air interface originally developed by QUALCOMM with multicasting capabilities designed to increase capacity and reduce content delivery costs to mobile handsets. The new MTI spec outlines the protocol for communicating FLO multiplex and control information from a FLO multiplexer subsystem in a FLO aggregation segment, to a transmit station. The FLO system supports multiple services including the video, audio, text and signaling components of a mobile multimedia multicast service. Technical requirements, such as the MTI specification, form a compatibility standard for FLO multimedia multicast systems. At the FLO Forum's quarterly meeting held earlier this month in Toronto, Verizon Wireless executives held a presentation describing the evolution of video services within the Verizon network, why Verizon chose FLO technology, and how the company views the future growth of the mobile multicast market. In December 2005, Verizon Wireless announced that it is working toward launch multicast multimedia services using via the MediaFLO network in 2007. http://www.floforum.org 23-Aug-06 In June 2006, The FLO Forum ratified and adopted three cornerstone technical specifications: the Service Information Specification, the FLO Services and Use Cases Specification and updated versions of the FLO Device and Transmitter Minimum Performance specifications. No video on this topic yet.. contact us to present your views. Recent Standards News Royalty-Free End-User Licensing for H.264 AVC Internet Video 8/27/2010 HomePlug AV2 Spec to Support Gigabit-class Powerline 7/28/2010 Wholesale Applications Community Sets Course 7/27/2010 OpenSAF Announces High Availability Middleware Release 4.0 7/27/2010 ZyXEL's VDSL Products Gain IPv6 Phase II Certification 7/21/2010 Vendors back POLQA -- Mobile Voice Quality Testing Standard 7/16/2010 OIF Finalizes IAs for 100G Modules and Control Plane Logging/Auditing 7/14/2010 Alvarion to Support TDD-LTE 7/13/2010 Internet2 Appoints Dave Lambert as CEO 7/8/2010 Bluetooth Adopts Low Energy Spec for Wireless Sensors 7/7/2010 WiMAX Forum Publishes Femtocell Standard 6/17/2010 HomeGrid Forum Partners with BroadBand Forum 6/15/2010 HomePlug Powerline Alliance’s Green PHY Spec for Smart Grid Published 6/14/2010 ITU Approves G.hn as Global Standard for Wired Home Networking 6/11/2010 Eight Silicon Vendors Back G.hn 6/11/2010 > More news...   Search  this site   Search the Web   Get Your Column Published Emergency Response and Wireless Location Systems by Manlio Allegra Interview: NSN's Sue Spradley on LightSquared's Wholesale Mobile Data Paradigm by Sue Spradley Mobile Backhaul Transition Requires New Testing by Joe Zeto Cybersecurity Requires Public/Private Coalition by Greg Oslan A Rethinking of Cloud Services and Network Architecture by Jim Theodoras Delivering Scalable Video Solutions <br><i> Advantages of SVC-Optimized QoS</i> by Andy Singleton